As I return to my daily meditation on the 23rd Psalm...a spiritual exercise that gives me a sense of peace and purpose...I share some of today's idle thoughts and blinding flashes:
When asked why I didn't buy a ticket for the recent billion-dollar lottery, I said that with my rotten luck, I'd probably win. Joking! Just joking!
Yes, but. Personally, I do believe my winning the billion-dollar lottery would be my heading down the road to ruin for I would no longer rely on my present, and ever with me, consciousness of enough. I would be stuck in the consciousness of fear...of losing my big money win.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Ah, want...self-will is born in want, want is born in resistance...resist not. To not want is an inner knowing that I have enough, I shall never not have enough...to want is to lose the consciousness of having enough.
It was the consciousness of enough that flashed one morning with The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want...I have enough. That is what keeps my coffers (material mind) and my consciousness (spiritual mind) filled with enough. I take care not to go for more than enough...I can never need, only want, more than. I have enough to meet any need that arises.
He prepares a place before me in the presence of my enemies. My enemies are my rues, regrets and remorses, all self-generated...resist them not, welcome them...resistance lowers consciousness and gives power to ego, my enemies' home. We hug them, yes, and kiss them and let them go.
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil for thou are with me. The valley of the shadow of death is lower consciousness, i.e., the egoic mind or self-will. Thou are with me is the grace of a changed mind to higher consciousness.
Thy rod [love] and thy staff [laughter], they comfort me. This is my favorite....it's the entire how-to manual for changing our mind.
Thank you.
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