Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 19
Your Conscious, Friendly Mind Day 19
Day 19: The World Is A Place of Continuous Learning
The soul and consciousness evolve through experience. The world is a place of continuous learning. Living in a world of constant change, it is only natural to become identified with the body and its senses. The magnitude and quantity of gross phenomena around us tends to overpower the more subtle aspects of consciousness. Inevitably, though, we come to experience certain difficult situations that function like natural shock treatments. Whether we are illiterate or highly educated, rich or poor, we stumble over obstacles at times that appear insurmountable. We suffer.
There are times of annihilation, of utter devastation, in every life. No one escapes. These, too, are part of the human experience. If we learn how to respond to these obstacles, how to receive the deepest wounds of humanity in a way that opens our hearts and expands our consciousness, our spirit is revealed. We find healing. We are freed from the tyranny of circumstance, purified by the process.
That is what surrender is all about. If we humbly surrender, if we accept the wounds as well as the joys of life when they come, if we resolutely dive deep within to see with the eyes of the soul, wisdom is born. Compassion is born.
That is why Jesus taught, “Resist not evil.” What we resist persists. We become like that which we love. We also become like that which we hate. Which will be stronger in us, our love, our compassion, our forgiveness, or our hate, our resistance?
