Until the mind is freed from the multitudes of thoughts, and has achieved the single simplicity of purity, it cannot experience spiritual knowledge. —Isaac of Syria
Upon reading that saying of one of the Desert Fathers, I knew it for true...slowly I recognized I'd always known that, I just hadn't realized it yet. I expect I'll be three days dead before it is wholly mine.
The idea of my mind effortlessly "freed from the multitudes of thoughts" brings a boatload of thoughts...all named "how?" Then comes the biggie, achieving a "single simplicity of purity."
"The Impossible Dream" comes immediately to mind.
Followed by a blinding flash of the obvious...all my resistance is the reasoning mind, afraid, unwilling, knowing full well it cannot do that.
There...that is the "spiritual knowledge"...that is God on a pinpoint encompassing all in all eternity. No, our cluttered mind cannot get us there. "Cluttered" meaning centered on aught but God.
Right here, right now, that impossible dream has just been transmuted...it is now a possible dream. Ah, unknowing is our goal, not trying is our nemesis.
Thank you.
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