It is a new way of thinking that leads us into the realization that just thinking is the real enemy of peace of mind.
Example: We are gifted with a new, and beautiful, idea. We ponder that new idea, think on it, analyze it, build it bigger...Make It Our Own.
Then we take it out on the stroll...let others see it, envy it if we're going to be truthful about it. Right off, some know-nothing is going to challenge it...challenge us. We must defend for this is a personal attack, and our idea is right...it was given to us from God Almighty his very own self.
Know-nothing is less spiritually advanced than us so she uses spite and malice as his ammo, but we know better than to do that so we withdraw in superior silence...with an unquiet mind.
That unquiet mind is my ego, Lucy With the Football. She seems to have a life of her own, and she natters at me whenever she wants to but especially at 3:00 AM when there is no one to talk to...as if I would because I am right, why talk about it, end of discussion.
The minute we are gifted with a new insight (what I call my blinding flash of the obvious), we must accept that it is impersonal, is not ours, anyone can claim it or deny it, it makes no never mind. It stands or falls on its own. Otherwise, claimed as our own and thus defended, it seems to transmute in midair, becoming mud we sling at another. That mud invariably lands in the middle of our own face...which we are left to either obsess over (stuck and resentful) or beg pardon for and move on (in that dreaded state, humbled).
We become another version of anything we dislike or react against too strongly.
Thank you.
No comments:
Post a Comment