WE GET TO GOD BY DOING IT WRONG

When we are at peace, when we are not fighting it, when we are not fixing and controlling this world, when we are not filled with anger, all we can do is start loving and forgiving. —Richard Rohr, 9/7/24

That is resist not evil (Matthew 5:39) plain and simple.

 Resist not must be the law of the Lord, according to me...anything else is mental gymnastics. 

Nonresistance is the secret of peace of mind, body, Soul and Spirit. 

Nonresistance, I'm guessing, cannot be achieved by the material mind. We must go to God to recognize, realize, live nonresistance. 

In the human condition, we are born on two levels...mental and spiritual. We spend the majority of our time on earth on the material level. Those of us who know a need for a higher consciousness must go to God, consciously and constantly. The hard lesson to learn is that we must go to God for God and that is all, everything...for that is all, everything.

There are the rare and precious few who know God from within early and forever...the Buddha and Jesus, of course, but I refer to walking-around people like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mother Teresa. Yet, they all had to crash and burn to come to their higher level of consciousness. 

From our eyebrows up, we say welcome while resistance dogs our path...that's if we're doing it right. Which makes welcome Fr Richard's we don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong.

Thank you.