The healing magic of laughter is my everything. Specifically, laughter at my own self. God sent us out at birth with two separate but equal gifts...free will and laughter. Maybe our life's job is returning that free will to God and laughing at our self-willed attempts to do it.
I'm a believer there are certain life-truths that, if accepted unto living them, will make our life joyful...not, repeat NOT, easy. If it seems easy, chances are we're lying.
[I've found these truths in some form in every spiritual tract I've read, which admittedly is not a great number but to find a couple of anything from different religions that are in agreement passes my low standard. The three as set out here are from my favorite spiritual literature...my favorites because they are written for the likes of me...short, to the point, and easy to understand.]
Three truths to know unto believing, unto living:
- Every time we are upset, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.
- When someone hurts us, makes us sore, we are in the wrong, too.
- When someone steps on our toes, seemingly without provocation, invariably we find that we have made a decision based on self that later placed us in a position to be hurt.
There. Those three simple guides are difficult beyond imagining because they ask only that we give up our desire to keep our self feeling safe, secure, happy and better than you.
If and when we give up our preoccupation with self, we will know a quiet joy. We will know it and we will show it. And we will begin to heal, to become One with the universe, God itself.
According to me.
And I am nowhere near living a life filled with that quiet joy all of the time. I do, however, know I am heading in the right direction because I live there some of the time. There. Knowing my life's journey is on the right track is the pearl beyond price.
Thank you.
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