We have for too long insisted on outer authority alone, without any teaching of prayer, inner journey, and maturing consciousness. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, February 7, 2023
The words maturing consciousness caught my attention. I hope I remember them in place of raised consciousness. For whatever reason, "raised" to me suggests already being at a higher place spiritually, and "maturing" suggests we're heading there...I opt for heading there.
Another phrase that fit my "maturing consciousness" that I came across just this morning was compassionate inaction which nails my personal golden rule, Just try not to be as nasty as you want to be. Face it, "compassionate inaction" is prettier, but no one is going to walk away wondering what my golden rule means.
I read about compassionate inaction just after reading my God Calling in which I had written on this day in 2020 about giving over to a friend who to me was wrong, and how I'd felt softened the minute I realized I gave over to her...without fanfare, or, especially, without conscious thought. I noted how in "being right," I'd felt hard...hardened by my sense of being right.
It's important to both my inner self and my reasoning mind to recall that I had written that my "being right" did not change...the change was my giving over to my friend not through thought, analysis, preaching or pondering but through inspiration and intuition.
There. That is the key. As I quoted from my special book in my post yesterday, inspiration and intuition originated as an impulse which was engendered in me by God.
There's Fr Richard's inner journey and maturing consciousness.
Thank you.
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