According to me, there are three "rules of the road" that determine our attitude on a daily basis. It takes willingness, daily discipline and an uncensored trust in God to open ourself to these truths for they are the core of our new way of thinking, feeling, doing, being. Those three truths?
- What we see is always our self.
- What happens to us happens by invitation only.
- We are the source of all our woes.
It takes daily discipline and great courage to take full responsibility for our own self...because full responsibility means giving over, giving up, giving in to a Power greater than ourself.
In walking-around terms, we need to divorce ourself from our own opinions...become willing to doubt our own ears before acting or reacting. Probably we've all been misheard and misquoted, maybe more than once or twice. That's pretty much how we learn to let it be...it's well-nigh impossible to convince someone that you did not say what they believe they heard you say.
In the reasoning-mind world, it's fight with words or resent in silence...both losers in our spiritual growth.
One way to walk away without recriminations on either side is to silently know, "I am not responsible for what you hear me say; nor am I responsible for how you choose to interpret what you hear me say." While out-loud saying any variation of, "You may be right." It helps if we remember to smile...better yet is to mean it.
It is a mysticism of wide-open eyes. . . . God calls upon the soul to give away its own ears and eyes and to let itself be given those of God. -- Dorothee Sölle
Thank you.
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