When you lay the ego aside, it will be gone. The Holy Spirit’s Voice is as loud as your willingness to listen. It cannot be louder without violating your freedom of choice, which the Holy Spirit seeks to restore, never to undermine.T-8.VIII.8:6-8
A Course in Miracles (p. 305). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
Spiritual progress can be assessed when the degree of conditioning by the external world is measured. When we overcome this conditioning, we are liberated from it and free. In order to overcome this conditioning we need to be aware of it and then ask the Holy Spirit, “What would Love have me do?” Jesus tells us that if we ask we will get an answer. The clarity of the answer depends on the extent of our willingness to listen.
In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion which requires the setting aside of the conditioning of the ego and accepting Love.
Today it is suggested that we question our behavior, motivations and intentions and consider the extent to which they are the result of conditioning and socialization as compared to our conscious choice. How free are we really?
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