LIVING LIFE'S PROBLEMS...NOT FIGHTING THEM

Having problems and overcoming them is what life is about. -- from a daily reading 

The hoped-for human condition on the material plane: The more educated we become, the more intellectually fit we are, the more self-confidence we will have...the more healthy, wealthy, wise and loved we will be. This pretty much ignores the fact that problems and overcoming them is the human condition.

Many living locked on the material plane found only failure and a defeatist life. Many others were led to an inner failure that, shockingly, delivered the success we did not know we sought. We were raised to a higher plane and found our heart home.  

It was in trying and failing and trying again unto crash and burn that we found a Higher Power where we slowly realized we have ceased fighting everything and everybody. That sums up the beloved promise of Chief Joseph: I will fight no more forever. 

The following two quotes lead Eknath Easwaran's entry today, and, in effect, are both in agreement with this:

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things, and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible. -- Richard of Saint-Victor

I found Thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking Thee without that were within. -- Saint Augustine

There...God's assurance that we are on the right track heading in the right direction.

Thank you.