Carl Jung said, The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis, but instead with an approach to the numinous. The approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to numinous experience, you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character!
I love this quote so much that I've made it mine...mine in the sense that it is my reminder to seek still more spiritual growth instead of studying my naval again, still, repeatedly. (I admit I had to Google numinous...found out it means transcendent God experience, and I fell in love with it.)
It reminds me that I need not be concerned with the removal of my defect du jour (or du minute) but instead to direct my attention toward love and the ways of love. Which usually entails thanking God for clarifying for me what it is that has me fretting and slapping Gertrude's name on it when it needs my name on it. More to the point, my known (from my eyebrows up anyway) need is for God's laughter to enwrap me and free me from the bondage of self...not to mention freeing Gertrude.
There are times I can redirect my thoughts in the minute, most often though it's in the morning in my quiet time...in the minute, the next morning, or whenever depends on how long I choose to sit in my stuff...a.k.a., be right.
The time for being right is shortening, and clearly not so much because of my spiritual advancement, but because of my advancing years. My time itself is shortening, but then so is Gertrude's, so is yours...best get cracking, saith the Lord. According to me.
Thank you.
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