A Great Secret Of The Universe: Gremlins

We all know someone, might even be someone we see in the mirror daily, who has a shelf full of self-help and spiritually themed books. Now, they probably have all been read, at least once, after which they took a place of pride on the shelf with all the others. Now being a spiritual guru, enlightened being, Zen master, world class pistol shot and just a peach of a guy, I will now impart to you one of the great grand secrets of the universe. Ready: (drum roll).....Gremlins. Here, I can prove it, pick up any spiritual or self-help book that touched you in the past, open it at random and start reading. Read a page or two. Go ahead, I’ll wait………………Pretty amazing huh. How could you have missed that the first time? Yup, gremlins. When we are not looking they add new insights that reflect our ever-growing level of spiritual understanding. The lesson then is simple, we need to stop looking for answers, for we already have them.

We progress by studying what has already touched us for it touched us for a reason. Returning to that which has sung to us in the past we are amazed that no matter how many times we may have read it, those darn gremlins have got in there and a deeper meaning has surfaced. This isn’t to say that nothing new can come along, but first we must set our foundation deep by focusing on basic truths, revisiting the roots of our beliefs regularly, observing how the gremlins have brought new luster to that which we thought we knew and understood. Aren’t secrets cool. Gremlins, who knew?

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Mercy Dragons

Being merciful toward others is of course laudable, but what of the mercy we fail to show ourselves? Do you mentally (or worse, out loud) chastise yourself when a mistake is made or when some negative or objectionable thought floats through your mind? Showing kindness to others but failing to show it your own house, your consciousness? 

Since we all make mistakes and curious thoughts float up in everyone’s consciousness we must put away the mental cat of nine tails we flog ourselves with and demonstrate mercy in our own house, our consciousness. The Miraculous wants all to be: happy, joyous and free. So, we stop berating ourselves and seek to raise our consciousness instead. 

When we do this, we have the opportunity to learn from our mistakes; while addressing those curious negative thoughts that seem to appear from nowhere by turning to God as we have come to know Him in prayer, asking if there is anything to be learned (sometimes there is, but not always, often a cloudy day is just a cloudy day) and move on. Under no pretense do we engage in a mental hunt for the cause of a discordant thought, attempting to root out the whys of it in our psyche. To do so only opens us to the deadly trap of reflecting morbidly and in the lexicon of the ancient mapmakers: there be dragons. If there is something to be known or learned, God will make it abundantly clear, so ask Him; but don’t go looking for dragons, they bite.

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