My thought on first reading that quote was, I don't think so! Which proves I need beware of my ego's first thought which was "How egotistical!"
My second thought is about bringing good to a less-than-thought. This time, I trusted spiritual growth to lead me to an open mind for a new take on a judgmental thought.
Much of what we initially resist, when we take another look. brings us to a deeper understanding...ah, acceptance, and our minds are changed.
I now recognize that quote as akin to the truth that we must take care of our self first or we'll not be fit to help another. By "take care of our self first," we learn we must take the action...we must turn the words we love to quote into actions that require ego deflation in depth.
Another awakening...growing spiritually is to first take care of our self by putting others before us...giving so the other may get, listening, offering to lend a hand when it is not convenient to us. Staying stuck in the material mind, or the egoic mind, all those actions are...face it, unnatural. That is the nature of ego...put no one before self.
Here's my own Great Lesson: There is a balance to living. We cannot...are not supposed to...figure that balance out all on our own. We are in a new way of thinking, feeling, doing, being. We ask the help of God in others, we trust by following their directions. When wrong, we promptly admit it...and find that was the gift, being wrong so we could admit it and learn.
When, not if, we get to the "right" answer, know this: We're going down that wrong road again. Spiritual growth is trying, not knowing, knowing we don't know, not believing we don't know, trying, not knowing....
Until three days after we're dead, according to me. Clearly, I cannot know...my three days haven't started yet.
The sliver of gold is we are now enjoying not knowing, offering a hand, learning to love and laugh...with, never at.
Thank you.
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