DAILY LIVING AT A HIGHER LEVEL DEEPER

Philosopher Bayo Akomolafe says the first thing you do is slow down... the call to slow down works to bring us face-to-face with the invisible, the hidden, the unremarked, the yet-to-be-resolved....It is about staying in the places that are haunted. -- Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, June 26, 2023

I heard the first thing you do is slow down some fifty years ago. The wonder to me is that it has stayed with me for I thought at the time that was purely bunk. It has, however, proven to be my go-to when my mind goes to race-race, run-run.

The last sentence in this quote is my tell. If I'd heard to slow down is about staying in the places that are haunted, I would have freaked since haunted was what I was running from. 

Here is an example of reasoning mind and spiritual mind processing from two different planes of consciousness: Haunted to the reasoning mind is the home of our rues, regrets and remorses...tormented in a word. Spiritually, tormented is the gift...that is self, feeling fear but knowing nothing turns us to God faster than fear.  

Reason is dependent on self, spiritual is of God. Reason, used with good judgment (slow down), is necessary to our daily life; spiritual, used with discernment (slowed down), is our peace passed on to others. Spiritual growth is all about daily living at a higher level deeper. 

Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have - the key to life and happiness for others. -- Anonymous

Thank you.