On solitude as told by Catherine de Hueck Doherty, a Russian mystic who experienced God’s presence and deep love in silence: This silence, then, will break forth in a charity that overflows in the service of the neighbor without counting the cost....But how, really, can one achieve such solitude? By standing still! Stand still, and allow the deadly restlessness of our tragic age to fall away. . . . That restlessness was once considered the magic carpet to tomorrow, but now we see it for what it really is: a running away from oneself, a turning from the journey inward that all [people] must undertake to meet God dwelling within the depths of their souls. [My emphasis added.]
Anxiety names this silence that she speaks of as "left all alone." Ego, having none of that and ever urging the quick fix, wants to be filled with people, picnics, gossip and glitter.
Ah, but no. This is proof of anxiety as the gift we can only spiritually grow into even as reasoning mind holds dread as its shield. With or without fear, here is where we need be on our journey inward for realization to continue to open to us.
It is our opening to fear as God in camouflage that clarifies an earlier BFO: Medical diagnoses are real to the reasoning mind and to be respected; ah, but to the mind lifted into God consciousness, the body may be ravished but the mind will be stayed in joy and love. [I nod in gratitude to my dear Beth, now in Heaven, who showed us that truth.]
My personal proof of that is my incurable, progressive disease: Once a dire penalty of insanity and/or death, through the grace of God and living by spiritual principles, it is now my greatest gift. Still with me, as in I still have the disease, will have it to the end of my life and possibly beyond, but with a fellowship, God-led and God-guided, it controls me no more...spiritual principles solve all my problems. Whether I know it or not.
It is true that there is no actual need to believe in God to be a good and decent person, but...also true...too few are until they do.
It is our decision to live by spiritual principles that opens us to the unselfed way...while fear, hiding as common sense, is praying to avoid pain. Staying in the Now, we walk through our own stumbles, blocks and anxieties for it is they that redirect us...turning us from our momentary self-determined objective back to God. And we realize again that nothing turns us to God faster than fear.
We are now at acceptance: We realize that a self-determined objective is but a turning from the journey inward that all [people] must undertake to meet God dwelling within the depths of their souls.
Resist not, praise.
Thank you.
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