LOST IN THE BUSY-NESS OF EGO

We must ever be aware that what we speak, what we share as ours, is indeed ours by the living of it. It comes to us, we live it, then it passes on. Skip the living of it and we miss "making it ours" which is our only chance at realizing it as our own truth.

Some of the best lessons I've ever received have come from my own mouth, and no one has been more surprised than me. But that's just surface stuff for then the task begins...we must learn to live that "best lesson" and not just talk it. Again, it comes to us, we live it, then it passes itself on. Miss that second part, and we just continue to live in the busy-ness of ego.

Then, too, if we are just quoting others and calling it ours, we are not growing in our own consciousness. That is what Joel Goldsmith calls,  "...mentally perceived, and not spiritually discerned..." [The Heart of the Mystic, at p. 1135], and Fr. Richard Rohr in his Daily Meditation of January 21, 2015, describes as "an idolatry of words."

Thank you.