This instruction...or advice...is my sliver of gold for it was the seed-thought of this quote that set me free in the midst of my darkest panicked thoughts so long ago.
[I need to clarify to keep from giving myself airs, I never heard of Jean Pierre de Caussade at the time or indeed until I read the quote in one of Fr Richard Rohr's Meditations fairly recently. It is that I realized back then the whole of the present moment he referred to.]
The seed-thought that is golden to me, i.e., the present moment that we must embrace, is the one here and now...the one that comes slithering through our mind, smelling like vomit, screaming vile curses that we fear are truths...the unleashing of dark moral forces as Teilhard put it.
Those are the moments we must needs embrace as an ever-flowing source of holiness...along with the happy, joyous and free moments that grow with gratitude.
To paraphrase my beloved "God Calling," we must praise the grey days or they'll keep coming back until we do. That's more my speed, actually...there's no way my ego Lucy can spin that to mean anything but what it says.
Remember, too, Eckhart Tolle's Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. That helps take away the dread of the dark.
According to me, we get to welcome the present moment no matter how we are perceiving it...with jitters or with joy. A thank you will suffice.
Thank you.
Those are the moments we must needs embrace as an ever-flowing source of holiness...along with the happy, joyous and free moments that grow with gratitude.
To paraphrase my beloved "God Calling," we must praise the grey days or they'll keep coming back until we do. That's more my speed, actually...there's no way my ego Lucy can spin that to mean anything but what it says.
Remember, too, Eckhart Tolle's Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. That helps take away the dread of the dark.
According to me, we get to welcome the present moment no matter how we are perceiving it...with jitters or with joy. A thank you will suffice.
Thank you.
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