We think we are very limited creatures, very small, good for maybe only fifteen minutes of love or patience before we have to crack. Instead of identifying with our deepest Self, we are identifying with some biochemical-mental organism. I don’t spend much time trying to reason with this idea. I just say meditate, repeat your mantram whenever you can, and try it for yourself: see how far you can stretch your patience. Of course, there will be lapses. But after a while you will see for yourself how comfortable you feel with everybody, how secure you feel wherever you go. You will find that when you have to go into difficult situations, you will do so with a quiet sense of being equal to the challenge. You know you can listen to criticism calmly, keep your temper, and make your point with kindness and humor; and you know that by and large, other people will respond. These are tremendous discoveries, which give only a hint of the heights to which a human being can rise. Once we see this for ourselves, we will catch the exhilaration of the mystics when they say that because the Lord is our real Self, there is no limit to the height to which we can grow. - Eknath Easwaran, from Constant Companion
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:00:00 +0000
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