The art of being human is in uniting fruitful activity [broom/dustpan] with a contemplative stance [thank you prayer]—not one or the other, but always both at the same time. The holding of this tension is the very shape of wisdom. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, November 17, 2023
According to me, our current mindset...of hate, war, death, destruction...is the fertilizer being used today to unconsciously grow our only need...love. Or, to learn the true meaning of love... underneath the feel-good, to where to suffer for a change into higher consciousness is of God.
Maybe we need a revamp of the word love. I'm drawn to Brother Lawrence, a devout 17th-century monk who worked in the kitchen at his monastery and found God in everything. It is said of him that he always governed himself by love without interest.
There it is...to live by love without interest...can there be a higher...or deeper...aim than that?
According to me, we need an authentic change of the current world mindset, which seems to be to resist...to resist, specifically with anger. That change can only come from and through a Power greater than our self...greater than human thinking, even at the genius level for that is still an either/or mind.
To accept that love your enemies is the open secret to a life of peace and purpose...a spiritual life. Our reasoning mind resists that outright...our spiritual mind exults.
Thank you.
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