LOVE, LAUGH, GET OVER YOURSELF

Life as we live it requires our reliance at times on our material mindset, at other times on the spiritual.

Knowing when to rely on which, I follow my own decoder such as it is: My material mind's rule of thumb is, self is the benefactor, profit (as we so choose it) is the motivator; the spiritual accepts God's plain and simple word as, Get over yourself, Beloved.

We have learned that "great love and great suffering" are the keys to still more spiritual growth, and, face it, great suffering is a lot more common to us than great love (until we learn the peace of universal love, a whole 'nother post).

In making our transition from comfortable reliance on our material mind to trusting our search for the Divine within, we accept the risk of showing our rear in public...not to put too fine a point on it.

Or, as Jung more elegantly put it, we accept the importance of inner experience as the only pathway to transformation.

We experience (and repeatedly), as Fr Richard Rohr clearly puts it, that we absolutely need conflicts, moral failures, defeats to our grandiosity, even seeming enemies. These are necessary mirrors, or we will have no way to ever spot our shadow self.  

Only then is our heart truly opened to Meister Eckhart's If the only prayer you pray in your life is thank you, that would suffice...putting the period to love, laugh and get over yourself.

Thank you.