Reading Rohr this morning, I found this quote of Etty Hillesum, It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich [life].
The truth of that left me feeling gobsmacked. (And what did we do before that word came into our consciousness?)
I pondered that, let my mind expand on it: It sounds paradoxical: by excluding negativity from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting negativity into our life we enlarge and enrich [life].
Came a glimmer of light...all forms of negativity, i.e., anxiety, hate, depression, et al., are fear in various guises, and all are of the reasoning mind. Ah, nothing turns us to God faster than fear...ergo, fear, and all forms of fear, are our gateway to Heaven...our path out of self to the light, up from the reasoning mind which takes us deeper into the dark.
All of those words are just words, even words that we know are good, right and true, but until we are unselfed, they remain just words. We'll quote them a lot, feel up, then feel down, until we get it, and we realize they are as clashing cymbals signifying nothing within.
We go to our go-to, we must go beyond reason to love. There. That's our wake-up call to our Soul...feel the anxiety and welcome it, feel the hate and love it, feel the depression and kiss it on the lips.
There's our U-bie, our turn from the security of head-knowing on the move up deeper to God consciousness: by admitting negativity into our life we enlarge and enrich [life]. Which does not make a lick of sense, but at the same time, hallelujah! We hug it and kiss it and let it go to God.
The warmth of truth encompasses us, and we know peace. Love and laugh.
Thank you.
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