I keep going back to the quote that the human condition requires us to live by a higher standard than we'd naturally choose. It occurs to me that that is what living by spiritual principles is...which brings to mind the other quote I love, "Most important was the discovery that all my problems could be solved by spiritual principles."
That's hard to hate.
And being hard to hate, why are spiritual principles the last thing I turn to when my mind gets wrapped around your latest slight of me?
I'm guessing because my ego has a louder voice than my Spirit...isn't stronger, tougher, righter...just louder. Louder, more insistent of its rightness, doesn't listen, won't give an inch. Holy moley, I've just described you.
Quick before my reasoning mind kicks in with my ego and breeds a resentment, I get to say, "Thank You." For I have learned that all it takes to shut the ego up is to "agree with my adversary quickly" (a spiritual principle). The ego will never understand nor agree with that principle...and that's all I need to know to realize I'm going down that wrong road again when I resist it.
Go beyond reason...to love.
Thank You.
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