I found when a tried-and-true spiritual message doesn’t
make sense to me that if I’ll just take the time to look underneath the
message, I’ll often find the sense of it.
“You must go beyond reason to love” was one of my first
puzzlers. Luckily, I recognized fairly quickly that my reason is driven by my
ego, and therefore most any problem I had, my reasoning mind’s
solution would be for my benefit. To go beyond reason to love meant
seeking a solution whereby all parties could be winners. It was perfectly clear
to me that I alone could not do that…I would need to let a power greater
than myself wholly into my life. That’s when I made my decision to let God
have my will, my wants, my hopes, my worries…simply to let God do my thinking
for me. I succeed the majority of the time…that’s 51%, but I usually do a tish
better than that.
When first I heard ”We have given up fighting anything and
anybody,” my reasoning mind balked because reason said not only was I going to
have to be a doormat, but I was going to have to like it. In opening deeper, my
win/win solution came up. I needed to give up fighting, that’s all. I do not
have the option of fighting, arguing, being disagreeable just because I think I
am right, in short. So the goal, when I find myself in a disagreeable
situation, is to buy time (shoot a “thank You”), and let some other
solution bubble up from within…a solution for the benefit of everybody.
Imagine my surprise when I realized that this is the exact
same basis for “agree with your adversary quickly.” The goal is not to agree
willy-nilly, making myself a hypocrite or a bald-faced liar (both of which I
admit to having been, and I’d just as soon not go back there). The goal
is to open my mind (actually, to change my mind from self-based to others-based),
to go beyond reason to Love which brings a win/win solution every time.
This has taken me years of practice, and I flub it more
often that I would like, but to flub it at all is more often than I would like.
The peace of mind brought by simply changing my mind is truly the pearl of
great price.
Thank You.
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