Eknath Easwaran has written that in every emotional relationship, when we react, it is to our own self's expectation...good or bad, it is our own projection onto the other that we are reacting to.
In other words, you are never angry for the reason you think, and I forget where I found that, but I know it to be true. Which is the same as what you see is always yourself...another forgotten origin but true to me.
Dig deep, and we'll find the same thing in Meister Eckhart’s The eyes with which we look back at God are the same eyes with which God looks at us. (Ponder that for a while.)
I've learned that I need to keep these things handy. They're my go-to in order to go-from...to God, from ego. Face it, there will ever be snags and snarls in our daily life, and the tinier the snag, the harder it is to detach.
I'm convinced that my ego Lucy will determine that "this" is too insignificant to bother with...then finds it impossible to let go of as I See Me takes hold and builds, ever downward. Spiritual growth is lost to self...again.
The never-too-old saying applies: No one ever stubbed their toe on Mount Everest.
Thank you.
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