Very few of us have the largess, the magnanimity to just decide to be loving. Someone has to ask it of us. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, October 20, 2022
The human condition is born in and shaped by the reasoning mind...it does not hold the perfect goodness to decide to be loving and to succeed at it for that is a self-determined objective, and our need is to seek the perfect objective which is of God.
It is when we find our self facing a need that the decision is offered us: Seek to do for the benefit of another...or take cover for the egoic benefit of self.
It is our eyebrows-up need that we so fear that opens us to our spiritual need hidden within. Here is where changing our mind morphs into an exchange of mind. Our reasoning mind is lifted out of self and raised into a higher consciousness...to a living commitment to do the will of God.
Slowly we accept the fact that we will forget, we will stumble, we will need to seek help...ah, God's pearl...our own need lives in higher consciousness.
I do believe consciousness is the deepest level of reality. -- Fr Richard Rohr
Thank you.
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