While Scripture, priests, pastors, and the pope may be necessary, [Carl] Jung recognized that they are all external to the self, and offer us a religion from the outside in. Jung wanted to teach us to honor those same symbols, but from the inside out, to recognize that there are already numinous voices in our deepest depths. If we do not have deep contact with our in-depth self, he believed we could not know God. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, February 28, 2025
In short, Fr Richard's teachings of Jung's are precisely what my original gift from God told me as truth, my truth, and I still stand on it.
It describes my spiritual base and life today, born when I realized and accepted that much of the spiritual peace that I have today first entered my life looking like the worst thing that could ever happen to me. Yet when it met the Father within, it was transmuted and became the light that shines for me today.
That is my proof that the reasoning mind is a useful friend, just not to be relied on in spiritual matters, yet, best to face it, life is a spiritual matter. We make peace with that for it is life in our walking-around world.
My simplified mantra combines the words of Thaddeus Golas and the Bible: Go beyond reason to love and resist not evil.
Admittedly, it took some time for me to make those my own...which at any given time can still trip me up...i.e., cause me to resist. These times, too, are of God for I've learned to sit and wait on the Lord until I am cleared.
Honesty being required, today I am seriously working on my resistance to President Trump. I pray a lot...for my consciousness to be raised regarding him for America.
My pearl beyond price is the gift of belief that there are already numinous voices in our deepest depths. If we do not have deep contact with our in-depth self, we cannot know God
Thank you.
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