It seems that old thoughts. recognitions and realizations are returning to me as new, fuller and richer. The process of affirmation maybe...keeps coming back until we get it right.
When I began to be drawn to smaller, to less, to littler, I knew I was being led deeper to a higher place. Mainly because it did not make a lick of sense to me. But many years ago when I first recognized the importance of detachment to me personally, I remembered the words loose it and let it go. When first I read those words, I didn't relate to their personal importance...nevertheless, and fortunately, I made them mine.
Then unknowing started singing to me. Unknowing, I realized suffering as a necessary fact of life, both materially and spiritually. Shortly thereafter I read the words necessary suffering, presented as a spiritual act.
For whatever reason, the 1960's book, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, just came to mind. I remember when it first came out, and the accidental death of the author, Richard Farina, just days after its publication, if I remember correctly, which is neither here nor there...what I remember is on first hearing the title, I knew it as both '60s smart-ass and deeply spiritual. I would doubt that but I remember saying those very words at the time to the friend I was with.
Somehow and again for whatever reason, I sense that as the way of my spiritual growth...like, we gotta put it in reverse to get where we need to go...go deeper to get higher...the last shall be first. OMG, I'm channeling the Sermon! Don't tell me God isn't guiding us every step of our way.
Psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin writes: By trusting your unknowing, your old standards of progress dissolve and you become eligible to be chosen by new, larger standards, those that come not from your mind or old story or other people, but from the depths of your soul. -- From Fr Richard's Daily Meditation of June 2, 2018.
Thank you.
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