Sunday, May 8, 2022

Creating heaven on earth.


Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived by it. It offers you nothing. When you have given up this voluntary dis-spiriting, you will see how your mind can focus and rise above fatigue and heal. Yet you are not sufficiently vigilant against the demands of the ego to disengage yourself. This need not be. T-4.IV.6: 1 - 5

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. T-4.IV.6. 


The idea of “spiritual practice” is a helpful one. What is a spiritual practice? It is one that focuses our minds on the spiritual instead of the ego. The best spiritual practice is to frequently ask ourselves, “What would love have me do?” and then do it.


The prayer that Jesus taught is, in English, called the “Our Father” or “Pater Noster” in Latin. One of the verses in this prayer is “ …and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” This verse is what today’s paragraph from A Course In Miracles is suggesting when it states “Watch your mind for temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived by it.” There are many things which the world of the ego tells us will make us happy which is disingenuous and only after a great deal of heartache does it slowly begin to dawn on us that there is a better way and that we have been mislead and lied to by the ego.


Today, we can consider the fourth principle of Unitarian Universalism which is the promotion and affirmation of the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. As it is stated in today’s paragraph “You are not sufficiently vigilant against the demands of the ego to disengage yourself. This need not be.” The dawning precipitates the initiation of the search and it is this seeking based on the question, “What would love have me do?” that can make all the difference in creating heaven on earth.


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