Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 19
Accept the blow of even the hardest teaching when it comes. Drive deep, deep within to find that place from which we can derive peace, understanding and compassion with regard to what is happening. When we confront the internal or external carnage brought about by human ignorance, greed and hatred, take refuge in God, in the eternal principles. Surrender. Allow the soul to nourish us. Allow all that is not our essential being, all that is not our essential goodness, to be shaken loose in the storms of your life.
The obstacles and agonies of life then become entrances into the world of spirit. Life will not be confined to preconceptions of what it should be. It is infinite. It is exquisite in its subtlety. It is relentless in its workings to reveal its Oneness. Whatever we are experiencing is ultimately beneficent if we choose to discover the beneficence. Then we become a co-creator with God, gleaning every aspect of the love God extends to us.
However much a disbeliever we might have been, most of us eventually come to believe that there is some greater power, some higher intelligence, or some higher design at work. We get glimpses into other realms through our joys and sorrows. Those realities take root in the heart. Possessive, materialistic attitudes gradually lose hold. The energy level of the mind rises and we perceive in a new way.
We have love in our heart. That is natural. We give that love to anyone, to everything in the world, but we don’t give it for its own sake. In return, we want happiness. We hope everyone we trust will return us a little happiness. In so doing, in so giving, we are disappointed. We suffer. Gradually, we learn. We finally come to see that what we were seeking was only our imagination and expectations, not reality. Only then we seek the Ultimate Reality.
