G. K. Chesterton, when asked what the trouble with the world is, replied, "I am."
I doubt he was the first to know that, to say that, he just said it more succinctly than most others. So this is no great secret, has not been a secret for a long, long time.
Why, then, am I always taken by surprise when it again proves true to me?
Interesting that it feels so good when I can point you toward your bathroom mirror when you're complaining about another, and tell you to look in your own eyes, and say, "I am looking at the problem."
There, as always, is ego. The ego is ageless and will always legislate for itself. The secret to taming resistance to ego is to get grateful for it, get grateful since it eases our way into seeing that we're going down that wrong road again when, not if, we're doing its dictates.
We're powerless over our ego's voice, but in that very powerlessness, we find our choice...God or ego?
Why, then, am I always taken by surprise when it again proves true to me?
Interesting that it feels so good when I can point you toward your bathroom mirror when you're complaining about another, and tell you to look in your own eyes, and say, "I am looking at the problem."
There, as always, is ego. The ego is ageless and will always legislate for itself. The secret to taming resistance to ego is to get grateful for it, get grateful since it eases our way into seeing that we're going down that wrong road again when, not if, we're doing its dictates.
We're powerless over our ego's voice, but in that very powerlessness, we find our choice...God or ego?
The choice is simple: Get grateful or get screwed...by ego.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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