To walk free in my own mind. That is my calling. That is my purpose. That is my goal.
The main block to our walking free in our own mind is our own mind. More specifically our own undisciplined mind.
According to Goethe, providence moves mountains immediately upon our making the decision to do something about something (my greatly simplified version of Goethe's idea).
God already has fixed, healed, made mute any self-perceived problem our mind can fancy way before we get all tangled up in that perception. There is no problem to be fixed. There is just our perception to be upgraded.
Our ego, my Lucy, gets hopelessly attached to that which God has already made not present to begin with. Relying on our reasoning mind, we justify not letting our self be run over, stepped on, snubbed and/or snarked, thus ignoring the spiritual knowledge we've sought for so long; namely, that we cannot be any of those if we do not pick them up...if we do not attach our own self to them, they do not exist for us.
We know this to be true for there are too many spiritual leaders and just plain folk, including you and me at some point, who have done it. What it amounts to is putting another's needs before our wants...and it is as hard as the ego is strong. It generally is only possible through the daily discipline of our own mind...of turning over our will and our wants to the care of God.
It's called meditation, and I'm convinced God does not care how we meditate...just make our self available to God on a daily basis, and he'll do the heavy lifting. And ain't that good news?
There it is...the birth of happy gratitude. Love and laughter.
Thank you.
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