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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 631251" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Today's continuation of RR on Letting Go. Really good stuff and relevant to us here. If we don't learn to let go, or at least to let go sometimes, we remain stuck. We keep doing the same things over and over again that do not work. In all areas of our lives. Really letting go, even if it's for a short time, is the most wonderful feeling in the world. It makes you want to let go again. </p><p></p><p>*****</p><p></p><p>Letting Go</p><p></p><p>Letting Go of Our Demons</p><p>Monday, July 21, 2014</p><p></p><p>The spiritual journey is a journey into Mystery, requiring us to enter the “cloud of unknowing” where the left brain always fears to tread. Precisely because we’re being led into Mystery, we have to let go of our need to know and our need to keep everything under control. Most of us are shocked to discover how great this need is.</p><p></p><p>There are three primary things that we have to let go of, in my opinion. First is the compulsion to be successful. Second is the compulsion to be right—even, and especially, to be theologically right. (That’s merely an ego trip, and because of this need, churches have split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.</p><p></p><p>I’m convinced these are the three demons Jesus faced in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11). Until we each look these three demons in their eyes, we should presume that they are still in charge in every life. The demons have to be called by name, clearly, concretely, and practically, spelling out just how imperious, controlling, and self-righteous we all are. This is the first lesson in the spirituality of subtraction.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Adapted from Simplicity: The Freedom of Letting Go, pp. 42-43</p><p></p><p>Gateway to Silence:</p><p>Let go and let God.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 631251, member: 17542"] Today's continuation of RR on Letting Go. Really good stuff and relevant to us here. If we don't learn to let go, or at least to let go sometimes, we remain stuck. We keep doing the same things over and over again that do not work. In all areas of our lives. Really letting go, even if it's for a short time, is the most wonderful feeling in the world. It makes you want to let go again. ***** Letting Go Letting Go of Our Demons Monday, July 21, 2014 The spiritual journey is a journey into Mystery, requiring us to enter the “cloud of unknowing” where the left brain always fears to tread. Precisely because we’re being led into Mystery, we have to let go of our need to know and our need to keep everything under control. Most of us are shocked to discover how great this need is. There are three primary things that we have to let go of, in my opinion. First is the compulsion to be successful. Second is the compulsion to be right—even, and especially, to be theologically right. (That’s merely an ego trip, and because of this need, churches have split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control. I’m convinced these are the three demons Jesus faced in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11). Until we each look these three demons in their eyes, we should presume that they are still in charge in every life. The demons have to be called by name, clearly, concretely, and practically, spelling out just how imperious, controlling, and self-righteous we all are. This is the first lesson in the spirituality of subtraction. Adapted from Simplicity: The Freedom of Letting Go, pp. 42-43 Gateway to Silence: Let go and let God. [/QUOTE]
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