When we know, who walks beside us, on this path we have chosen, our fears fall from us.

Monday, March 7, 2011

DO NOT!




Don’t Hurry.
Don’t Worry.
Don’t Condemn.
Don’t Resent.

Pretty straightforward, what more is there to know? OK, maybe a little.

Hurry? To where? “We trudge the road of happy destiny.” We have already arrived. The road is eternal, traveled one-step, one prayer, one meditation and one day at a time. Remember, in the end, the final destination for this flesh is the same for all. To borrow from Babba Ram Das: “Be here now, now be here.”
Worry? Having turned our will and lives over to the care of God when we chose the Spiritual Basis of Living as our path, what is there to worry about? That’s His job now.

Condemn? Remember the teaching on judgment? “Judge righteously and the whole world improves, condemn and all suffer for we are connected in Spirit, all children of the Divine Presence.” When we condemn we open ourselves to morbid reflection, never a pretty sight.

Resentment? It’s deadly. Nothing shuts us off from the sunlight of the Spirit quicker than harboring resentments. Living on the Spiritual Basis we have learned to pray for those who have seemingly wronged us (real and imagined) asking to be shown the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. In so doing, we are set free. There is no resentment that enough prayer, meditation and service will not completely wipe out.
Living on the Spiritual Basis we have ceased fighting everything and everyone, including ourselves, for we have tapped into the miraculous. See, straightforward.

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