I love when this happens: My blog of January 11th was all about my long-ago realization that authentic spiritual growth is counterintuitive, and Fr Richard's quote today confirms that.
Counterintuitive spiritual growth requires we detach from our reliance on our reasoning mind (but keep it for housework) and lean into unknowing.
I wonder if that's why atheists cannot allow for God in their lives...unknowing is the proverbial bridge too far for their reasoning mind. This is understandable...it's dicey enough for a spiritual seeker much less a denier.
To simplify detaching from our reasoning mind as the final word, we learn to allow any "good idea" that floats across our mind to be suspect...to do nothing with it till we check it with another seeker.
On the other hand, any "Oh No" fact that presents itself, we know needs our thank you and that is all. That is where the hard work of detachment comes in...not working it.
Let go and let God means precisely that, and all we have to do is love. Whoa! That explains why the song I sing in my head is Hard ain't it hard, Lord, loving you.
The source of spiritual wisdom is to hold questions and contradictions patiently, much more than to find quick certitudes, to rush to closure or judgment as the ego and dualistic mind want to do. -- Ibid.
Thank you.
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