FEAR NOT GETTING IT WRONG

Rather one must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.  -- Meister Eckhart

What joy I feel! Eckhart's quote speaks of living in raised consciousness. My experience yesterday is evidence that I am! On occasion, as needed, and by grace, I am living in raised consciousness. 

Yesterday as my mind went to blaming my friend and setting her straight in a "kind" way, the thought bloomed, "She is not the wrong one...I am." The thought repeated itself until I realized the counterintuitive insight that I was missing. My view of her "wrong" had been "righted"...released in a word. 

Released not by thought but by God's grace.  

There it is...inner evidence of raised consciousness...without thought, without reasoning, without prayer, the change came from within, and I felt peaced.

We must not forget the deeper truth...that these moments of realization are our way to a higher depth. Our focus today is not on getting it right but not fearing getting it wrong.

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, turning away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. -- Ibid.

Thank you.