MIND, HEART AND SOUL, ALL ONED

We'll see as we get into the Sermon on the Mount, that Jesus intended for us to take the low road....When w are protecting our self-image as moral, superior, or 'saved' persons, we always lose the truth....In our time, we have to find a way to disestablish ourselves, to identify with our powerlessness instead of our power, our dependence instead of our independence, and our communion instead of our individualism. Unless we understand that, the Sermon on the Mount isn't going to make any sense. -- Fr Richard Rohr,  "Jesus' Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount"

I read that and my heart sang...it seems like forever and, at the same time, just a day or two ago that the realization came that we must go for less rather than for more, that littler, not bigger, is the Way. 

Then, of all things, a daily reader that I no longer read, came to my hand. I opened it at random, and on April 8 I had written: 2001 - To not confront a friend but be willing to be confronted...willing, not from head but from heart. Thank you.

To ego, that is not good. To still more spiritual growth, that is the sliver of gold...the essence of powerlessness, of our communion instead of our individualism. 

Interestingly, ego-reduction in depth is painful while it is all up in our head...in the thinking on it. There, the rocky road to disestablishing ourselves. That's how the rocks become diamonds, the doing of it. 

God's will, God's way...rocks transformed into diamonds transmuted into peace of mind, heart and Soul, all Oned. 

Thank you.