In the quiet of this morning, I was given a clear idea about the implications of what I had written in yesterday's blog - that is, that realization of the Absolute was the ultimate goal, and the only one in which cosmic intelligence is fully reliable (that is, altogether sympathetic). In this, it became obvious why the Absolute allows suffering, misfortune and all the rest: because, in a relative sense, it is absolutely unimportant. This is nothing new to me, but the clarity with which I received it was - and it resolves all but one question that I have about the way our world works. That is, that ALL is pointed at getting us to the God realization; that this power IS interested in our welfare, but the only welfare that counts is the eternal presence. There is no happiness or achievement or state of being that can compare, and so reaching the highest trumps all, our worldly health and happiness included.
Hard stuff, really, but all already said by the great spiritual leaders, including Jesus. Give away your other cloak? Leave your family and home? Yes; all are inconsequential, and if they are holding you back , are not worth it. This includes the objects of our ambitions, which I now find particularly hard - this website, for instance, was started primarily as an attempt to reach an audience for my current book and the several more to come. I do have ambition. And we can pray for our success, or, if you do not believe in prayer, work harder and harder for it and perhaps hope for that special ingredient, luck; but if it is not compatible with the prime directive, cosmic consciousness, don't count on any extra help. And if it comes, it may come as a back-handed hard lesson. How many have been ruined by achieved goals? Conversely, how many have been helped towards God by success? Perhaps many on both counts, but we cannot see the results of success or failure until one or the other happens.
Still, we must try - and pray or hope that our desires are consistent with cosmic design.
Of the one thing still unanswered: Why? Why the trial and sometimes torture to re-achieve what always AM? In the face of all-knowing eternity, our lives, even our concepts of eternity, are nothing, not a dream, but dream-like in their ephemerality. But why the dream of God, of us, in the first place? In the Old Testament we are given a very human god wanting company, but that concept seems far too limited. No, there is another game afoot. It just hasn't come to me what, and may never; it may be the mystery that must remain so. FK
Hard stuff, really, but all already said by the great spiritual leaders, including Jesus. Give away your other cloak? Leave your family and home? Yes; all are inconsequential, and if they are holding you back , are not worth it. This includes the objects of our ambitions, which I now find particularly hard - this website, for instance, was started primarily as an attempt to reach an audience for my current book and the several more to come. I do have ambition. And we can pray for our success, or, if you do not believe in prayer, work harder and harder for it and perhaps hope for that special ingredient, luck; but if it is not compatible with the prime directive, cosmic consciousness, don't count on any extra help. And if it comes, it may come as a back-handed hard lesson. How many have been ruined by achieved goals? Conversely, how many have been helped towards God by success? Perhaps many on both counts, but we cannot see the results of success or failure until one or the other happens.
Still, we must try - and pray or hope that our desires are consistent with cosmic design.
Of the one thing still unanswered: Why? Why the trial and sometimes torture to re-achieve what always AM? In the face of all-knowing eternity, our lives, even our concepts of eternity, are nothing, not a dream, but dream-like in their ephemerality. But why the dream of God, of us, in the first place? In the Old Testament we are given a very human god wanting company, but that concept seems far too limited. No, there is another game afoot. It just hasn't come to me what, and may never; it may be the mystery that must remain so. FK
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