Resistance is violence in disguise...dressed up as right. Rigid, righteous and right is our learned definition of resistance but we hide from our own self the rigid and righteous part of it. Right standing alone seems...well, right.
I am reminded of my recent flash; i.e., our problem is never the named thing; it is fear of the named thing. There...proof of Fr Richard's quote that's suffering comes from resistance.
The cure to our suffering is purely spiritual, not available to us through our reasoning mind. We can "know better" yet suffer all the deeper.
Again and yet again, self-knowledge avails us nothing...especially when we sit in that self-knowledge feeling unloved, unneeded, unwanted, unappreciated. That is our head looking out there...for someone to blame...rather than looking within for the how, what, why we invited this that is causing our suffering.
The answer is seldom as shameful as we fear...it is the result of our reasoning mind getting ahead of our spiritual mind. Our reasoning mind always legislates for itself, the spiritual mind does not legislate...it generates love and laughter, and that is all.
There is our lesson come to fruition: Give over, give up, give in...love and laugh.
Thank you.
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