We don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong. -- Fr Richard Rohr
According to me, spiritual seekers don't do wrong deliberately, we kinda know that what we're planning may not be "kosher" (our pseudonym for wrong...and the need for a pseudonym tells its own tale). Ah, but old unreliable ego, Lucy With the Football, says, "Action is needed right now, and my way is all I have right now."
When all we had to go on turns out to be wrong indeed, we drop into the s-o-s-o routine of rues, regrets and remorses...missing the point entirely: Experiencing...owning...the less-than-wonderful result of going for a self-determined objective opens us to "the perfect objective which is of God."
As we have found, and refound, regrets bring us to the fork in our spiritual road: Stay, and reasoning mind wraps us in its virtual dung-heap of self; surrender, and, phoenixlike, acceptance rises...leading us free of self.
In short, stay with regrets, and we get regrets; own our regrets, and acceptance kisses us on the lips.
There it is...acceptance is thank you, the Open Sesame for letting go.
Thank you.
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