SPIRITUAL GROWTH FROM THE INSIDE OUT

While Scripture, priests, pastors, and the pope may be necessary, [Carl] Jung recognized that they are all external to the self, and offer us a religion from the outside in. Jung wanted to teach us to honor those same symbols, but from the inside out, to recognize that there are already numinous voices in our deepest depths. If we do not have deep contact with our in-depth self, he believed we could not know God. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, February 28, 2025

In short, Fr Richard's teachings of Jung's are precisely what my original gift from God told me as truth, my truth, and I still stand on it. 

It describes my spiritual base and life today, born when I realized and accepted that much of the spiritual peace that I have today first entered my life looking like the worst thing that could ever happen to me. Yet when it met the Father within, it was transmuted and became the light that shines for me today.

That is my proof that the reasoning mind is a useful friend, just not to be relied on in spiritual matters, yet, best to face it, life is a spiritual matter. We make peace with that for it is life in our walking-around world.

My simplified mantra combines the words of Thaddeus Golas and the Bible: Go beyond reason to love and resist not evil. 

Admittedly, it took some time for me to make those my own...which at any given time can still trip me up...i.e., cause me to resist. These times, too, are of God for I've learned to sit and wait on the Lord until I am cleared. 

Honesty being required, today I am seriously working on my resistance to President Trump. I pray a lot...for my consciousness to be raised regarding him for America.

My pearl beyond price is the gift of belief that there are already numinous voices in our deepest depths. If we do not have deep contact with our in-depth self, we cannot know God

Thank you.

BE IT DONE TO ME ACCORDING TO THY WILL

Be it done to me, oh Lord, according to Thy will. -- Mary's Obligate

That came to me this morning...I cannot find anything that I was reading at the time this would have come from. ..including "Mary's Obligate," and I have no knowledge or memory of those words. But I did see it with my mind's eye along with the quote.

I had been sitting in silence with my thoughts trained on accepting dementia, if that be God's will, God's way.

Mary, when she accepted God's word, must have passed my mind for then came, be it done to me, oh Lord, according to Thy will. -- Mary's Obligate.

I felt nothing, got neither warm nor scared feeling...did not even write it down at the time. Later, I think it was when I recalled the words "Mary's Obligate," and I had to google it...I felt poleaxed.

So, here's me now trying to get my marching orders from the message. I love it. Figure out nothing, let what is coming, come, pray thank You, and fret no more...or less at any rate.

God is so good to me...patient. too.

Thank you.

THERE IS A GOD-SEED WITHIN

We need to move from the superficial or 'outer self' to the true self or 'inner self.'  *** Our spiritual journey consists in nourishing and watering and caring for this God-seed that is in all of us. -- Meister Eckhart

That is the gift I was given many years ago...realizing the God-seed already within me. The rest of my life to date has been uncovering it...thank You.  

Having been given such a gift, it is hard to accept that fear would...or could...enter our life. Well, it can, it will, it does...what I have come to believe is that, too, is God's will, God's way. By the very fact of the blinding flash, nothing turns us to God faster than fear, we can accept that God's hand is in it, too. 

This, then, is our calming rite: When, not if, we feel fear, of course we resist! Until we recall that we meet fear by nonresistance. To repeat...to emphasize...it is when, not if, we feel fear. To expend our energy trying to not feel fear is a self-determined objective whose egoic goal is to deny God's will, God's way.  

We cannot deny human nature...which is to avoid fear, period, and that, too, has God's hand in it. Trying to avoid fear is the impossible objective that turns us to God...pray thank You.

All of this brings us to acceptance. I am convinced that acceptance is the seed of the God seed...impossible to "get," but by grace and by God. ours to "receive."  Be ready.

Thank you.

FREEDOM FROM THE BONDAGE OF SELF, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 24, 2021]

I am a believer that the greatest change we will ever experience is when our mind is exchanged from self to Self. That is when we become willing to Suffer little children to come unto Me. The exchange is our change in consciousness...when we realize Me is the God of our own understanding.

Our thinking is upgraded from reliance on self to trust in God, and we realize that it is only and ever our trust that needs improvement.

We cannot come to believe utterly until we can come to trust utterly the God of our own understanding. To trust that very God can, will and does intervene in our life in our behalf.

For this, still more spiritual growth prepares us: Whether we seek him or not, whether we even know it or not, calling it coincidence or luck of the draw, in this life or the one light-years ahead, at some point self will suffer self-will enough, will crash and burn, and our consciousness will be lifted up deeper into God consciousness.

Then, my friends, we will know freedom from the bondage of self

Thank you.

THANK YOU...SIMPLY, THANK YOU

It is a cosmic truth that to fight our ego is to nurture our ego. Resist not. Go to God a-running, breathing our thank you that with God all things are possible. -- February 29, 2016, Ari of Aslan I  

Today I believe that it is a truth that to fight anything is to nurture our ego. Resist not. Turn to God, breathing thank you, and that is all. 

That is probably the most difficult action spiritually required of us...to resist not. To welcome.

Welcome the snake and the snail, the friend and the foe, winning the big-bucks lottery then losing it all inadvertently. 

Welcome is the how-to word for trust. When first we're told to trust, our one-word response is how? 

One of our first lessons in spiritual growth was resist not evil (Matthew 5:39). The lesson was underneath the words...the upside-down, inside-out lesson of spiritual growth is not of the reasoning mind. 

According to me, the Quiet Word is and always will be: We must go beyond reason...to love, to still more spiritual growth, to God. 

Spiritual growth simply put: Worst fear a-coming, pray thank you. There...we are One'd.

Thank you.

FEAR IS GOD'S TO PEACE

Our great paradox: 

Fear is our egoic self in control, there is no God there...yet nothing turns us to God faster than fear. 

Feel fear...pray thank You.

Thank you.

A CALMED MIND IS OUR FIRST PRIORITY

The first thing I journaled this morning was, I'm feeling fuzzy headed...that's what it is and has been for a while now. 

I sat with that until I got:  It's in the air...it's noticeable...it's kind of the feeling of something ain't right, or 'something wicked this way comes.'  

Consciously, I give over, give up, give in...I resist not and get a sense of peace from a sentence in my first reading, ...remember that we are not separate from nature. 

Ah, the wild weather we have been experiencing all across the land...floods, fires, freakish winds, driving rain, and cold, frigid cold, air. Our goal, lest we forget, is to still our negative responses with our prayer, thank You.

Not to let denial do our thinking for us, in truth, the right-here-at-home, domestic political situation is the mental culprit we're allowing occasional entry. Uh-oh...fear on the hoof, no matter how "occasional," is fear on the hoof.

I am reminded that nothing turns me to God faster than fear, and words of peace flow: We do not resist our thoughts, we let them exist with neither fear nor favor...our mind, calmed, is of God and our first priority. 

Thank you.