We seek still more spiritual growth not for the knowledge but for the experience...to experience the Father within/without.
I'm guessing spiritual growth is so difficult to honestly seek because the charge is to seek nothing but still more spiritual growth.
We come to know, from our eyebrows up at least, that if we're expecting our good to come to us, we're going down that wrong road again. We're learning that we must quit asking for our good and open out a way for our good to escape from us.
Think of kindness. Where would we go to get kindness but from within? All the kindness there is is already within us just waiting to be used.
It is our reasoning mind that decides when and where to parcel out that kindness...who deserves it, who doesn't. It is our developing spiritual light that shines on all, on everybody, without our deciding the deserving or undeserving.
Thus begins our deeper lesson: It is not our opinions that need to change, it is our mindset...from resisting to unresisting. Here's where we realize that to welcome the good, the bad, the pretty, the ugly, the different, the indifferent is to know Oneness...in the welcoming they become one.
And then the lesson goes deeper to a higher lever...we realize we cannot do that by our unaided will or want...both of which are subject to our reasoning mind. We must go beyond our reasoning mind to love...and there find peace of mind.
Thank you.
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