The fire in the heart of God is the same fire that burns in us once we have the interior vision that lets us acknowledge divinity within ourselves. —David Richo
There. That's what shame and blame are good for...turning us within to the God of our own understanding...seeking surcease when we aren't even sure what that word means.
I believe there is a sliver of gold in everything, specifically today I'm thinking of the intertwined shame and blame. That, too, is of God...name it, hug it, kiss it on the lips and recognize this as the counterintuitive road back to God.
When we finally recognize shame and blame as fear in disguise, we recall that nothing turns us to God faster than fear. We are experiencing the God gift of interior vision...or, our reasoning mind giving up the Ghost so to speak.
According to me, all spiritual growth is counterintuitive. Our reasoning mind is useful in bringing us to crash and burn, the least-wanted albeit essential step in continuing to trust spiritual growth over our reason.
That is the essence of Meister Eckhart's If the only prayer you ever say in your lifetime is 'thank you' that would suffice. What reasoning mind would ever think to say thank you for the less-than-wonderful feelings of shame and blame?
I'm guessing that's why Rumi taught that the encounter with the holy is always anchored in earthy human experience.
And why Thaddeus Golas taught that we must go beyond reason to love.
Feel shame and blame and realize ...God Calling!
Thank you.
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