Sunday, June 10, 2018
Destructive Mourning
Miracles Of Recovery
Mourning to excess is destructive. Many have stopped living
themselves when a loved one has passed, literally hoping for their own
end so they can “join” with them on the “other side.” When we have
committed ourselves to living on the Spiritual Basis, death and all
suffering come into true focus. Nothing truly dies. The flesh will
fail for this is the nature of flesh, but the spark of the Divine; the
ineffable power at the heart of everything that stands outside of
time and our synthetic understanding of the universe, was never born
and can never die. So we mourn those who have passed beyond our limited sight
by celebrating their life, this lesson learned, comforted in the
knowledge of their translation from flesh back to true self,
unbound and unencumbered by physical limitations and let them go in Love.
Death provides a clear ending point, but what of the sneaky things we mourn? Lamenting lost or missed opportunities, those “if I only would have” moments when we fantasize what our lives would have been like if we had acted or chosen differently. "If I were only (fill in the blank) years younger", “If I didn’t have kids” (this doesn’t mean we don’t love our children or in any way wish they were gone, only projecting what life would have been like without that responsibility). “What if” moments, we all have them, so when they come, let them pass with little notice, like a small wave lapping our feet at the waters edge. Do not under any circumstance comment out loud or engage in conversation regarding them. For if we do, what began as a seemingly benign chat will devolve into morbid reflection, pulling us out of the moment and into a destructive contemplation of the past and "what if". Profit from your experiences, use them as teaching instruments for you and more importantly others, but do not dwell on them, for any reason. “We do not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it” for one of life’s great truths is that "Pain is the only instrument sharp enough to cut away the excess of self".
So we remember and honor those no longer in our sight and when we drift into the discomfort of "what if" thinking we pause and thank God for all we have learned, products of our long schooling, our scars well earned and convicted in the knowledge that our life is exactly as it should be in this moment, by the choices and decisions we have made which prepare us for the lessons to come.
Death provides a clear ending point, but what of the sneaky things we mourn? Lamenting lost or missed opportunities, those “if I only would have” moments when we fantasize what our lives would have been like if we had acted or chosen differently. "If I were only (fill in the blank) years younger", “If I didn’t have kids” (this doesn’t mean we don’t love our children or in any way wish they were gone, only projecting what life would have been like without that responsibility). “What if” moments, we all have them, so when they come, let them pass with little notice, like a small wave lapping our feet at the waters edge. Do not under any circumstance comment out loud or engage in conversation regarding them. For if we do, what began as a seemingly benign chat will devolve into morbid reflection, pulling us out of the moment and into a destructive contemplation of the past and "what if". Profit from your experiences, use them as teaching instruments for you and more importantly others, but do not dwell on them, for any reason. “We do not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it” for one of life’s great truths is that "Pain is the only instrument sharp enough to cut away the excess of self".
So we remember and honor those no longer in our sight and when we drift into the discomfort of "what if" thinking we pause and thank God for all we have learned, products of our long schooling, our scars well earned and convicted in the knowledge that our life is exactly as it should be in this moment, by the choices and decisions we have made which prepare us for the lessons to come.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
All Rights Reserved
The Secret, Wayne Dyer, Recovery,
Addiction, Zen, Emmet Fox, Opioids, NA, Four Agreements, Chopra, Heroin,
Einstein, AA, McRaven, Healing Path
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Anchored By Our Possessions
Miracles Of Recovery
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
All Rights Reserved
Miracles Of Recovery, The Secret,
Wayne Dyer, Recovery, Addiction, Zen, Emmet Fox, Opioids, Four Agreements,
Chopra, Heroin, Einstein, AA, Healing Path, Law Of Attraction
Anchored By Our Possessions
Miracles Of Recovery
Have you inventoried your “great possessions”? We all have them
and until we identify them and understand their roots they will act as
invisible anchors, slowing our spiritual progress. Does this mean we have to strip
away and discard all we own (physically and mentally) to grow
spiritually? No, but we must discard our attachments. There is nothing
spiritually hindering in possessions, unless we define ourselves by them. We are not the house we live in or derive
any real status (positive or negative) from its physical location. We
are not the car we drive, wristwatch we wear or any other material
possession for these things are all passing, mere ornaments of living,
gifts to enjoy but of little spiritual value, destructive if they lull
us into a false sense of perceived spiritual entitlement.
As hindering as these may be they pale in significance when weighed against the mental possessions which plant the deepest and heaviest anchors. Once we close our mind to any new thinking or concept, in any area of life, we throw out another anchor, for nothing slows, even stops our spiritual growth quicker than a closed mind. To hold that any group or people are either favored by God or despised, plants another anchor. To place anyone or anything on a pedestal, a sacred cow, another anchor. To fail to recognize the inherent dignity of anyone, for ANY reason, another anchor, there are many more. We are spiritual beings, the power that is within us, moves us is beyond measure; it is no less than the Creative Life Force that animates the mayfly and powers the stars. As great as this power is, we can set enough anchors to slow our growth to the point of it being imperceptible. We must begin cutting away the anchors slowing our progress, for if we don’t, our fate will be the same as the Rich Young Man from the Bible, who failed to demonstrate and …went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions (Matthew 19:22)
As hindering as these may be they pale in significance when weighed against the mental possessions which plant the deepest and heaviest anchors. Once we close our mind to any new thinking or concept, in any area of life, we throw out another anchor, for nothing slows, even stops our spiritual growth quicker than a closed mind. To hold that any group or people are either favored by God or despised, plants another anchor. To place anyone or anything on a pedestal, a sacred cow, another anchor. To fail to recognize the inherent dignity of anyone, for ANY reason, another anchor, there are many more. We are spiritual beings, the power that is within us, moves us is beyond measure; it is no less than the Creative Life Force that animates the mayfly and powers the stars. As great as this power is, we can set enough anchors to slow our growth to the point of it being imperceptible. We must begin cutting away the anchors slowing our progress, for if we don’t, our fate will be the same as the Rich Young Man from the Bible, who failed to demonstrate and …went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions (Matthew 19:22)
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
All Rights Reserved
Miracles Of Recovery, The Secret,
Wayne Dyer, Recovery, Addiction, Zen, Emmet Fox, Opioids, Four Agreements,
Chopra, Heroin, Einstein, AA, Healing Path, Law Of Attraction
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