Blinding flash of the obvious: A life well lived is lived for the benefit of the other.
Isn't that pretty? Our egoic mind says we need to memorize it so it can be quoted by rote. Then hard-earned experience awakens: To quote by rote is to miss the message. The message is that we do not get to pick and choose "the other," that one we want to live for the benefit of.
That is the hook to a life well lived...for the benefit of another no matter who the other is...and the basis of a spiritually lived life.
The truth we learn early and accept slowly is "the other" is almost always the one we'd like to smack, the one we'd like to set straight, the one we'd like to get out of our eyes...that one. The big reveal is that one is not always human, often is a situation, more often is monetary in nature, i.e., money, Honey. No matter...that one is our personal angel, God in disguise.
All the goodies we once so glibly quoted we are now experiencing: He goes before me to make the crooked places straight. Oh, we must be in the crooked place for it to be made straight. Get grateful for that crooked place. He lifts us out of the mud and the mire...we must be in that dark place to be lifted out. Be grateful...be graced.
We must go beyond reason to love. -- Thaddeus Golas
Thank you.
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