Whoa! How powerful is that? To allow oneself to separate from familiar paths and ways of coping so that one can 'not know.'
To consciously separate ourself from a familiar path, from our proven ways of coping when we choose a new and different path, fully aware we cannot know the how, where and when our choice will bring us? To call that spiritual discipline is to understate by a mile...according to me.
But isn't that what we do every day albeit in little ways? When our chosen path in life is ever toward still more spiritual growth, those little ways are our slivers of gold. We come to realize them as such as needed when we continue to grow spiritually.
A "little way" example: We're heading down the highway, we approach a fork in the road for which we have the right-of-way. Another driver is approaching and is not slowing down. We make a quick decision to smile and yield to the other. There. That smiling decision to yield is a spiritual little way.
Our decision in the moment to allow another in, separated us from our I'm-right-and-I'll-fight mindset. That gave us a new way of coping...with our "you're-welcome" smile...not knowing but what we might get the bird, we might get a smile in response.
Those are the golden bricks that we are laying ever leading us to the peace of mind we seek. (Apropos of nothing, I'm convinced that peace of mind is code for ego-deflation in depth.)
Thank you.
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