Apart from conversion and until the ego is transformed, everybody wants to be at the top. ... In the contemplative journey, unless we see this necessary humiliation of the ego and defeat of the false self, we don’t undergo basic transformation. - Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, July 20, 2023
It is a hard concept to grasp, but losing face is a spiritual winner. On pondering, losing face is a dead-ringer for ego reduction in depth, the first step in spiritual growth.
Harder still to grasp is that spiritually we cannot depend on self to bring ego down. Even reading spiritual material daily and talking it...writing daily tracts...will not bring us that necessary basic transformation of ego where losing face is to love and laugh.
To try to bring about ego reduction in depth...ego deflation...is an ego trip. It is a self-determined objective that sounds good, righteous and holy, but it is not of God, it is of self.
The rest of that story is almost always that we must walk that path, trying with a will, before we hit the can-do wall to accept the dreaded "loser" label. It is an inner lesson in learning about love and laughter.
It is the inner learning that deflates the ego...that resists not, but loves. A loved ego does not act out; it is, however, ever ready to show its bum in public. Ah, but we have ceased fighting, we love and laugh.
Thank you.
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