Learn and Grow Beyond Fear
Key Lesson: Welcome the wisdom in the following truth and find a life as graced by humility as it is free of fear: in order to learn and grow -- to go through what is needed to perfect heart, mind, and soul -- we must "fail" more than we succeed.
Dealing with Healing Ourselves
Nothing seems harder to accept than some of the strange and often shocking spiritual facts to which we are awakening. After all, who would ever believe that we are responsible for so much of what proves to be unnecessary suffering? But with the help of honest self-investigation, we begin to learn that we must challenge this involuntary, often intractable refusal to consider such ideas. The truth is that we are actively involved with unseen thoughts and feelings that compromise us. Without the self-knowledge we need to nullify this conflicted condition in our psyche, how can we hope to end the heartaches that begin there? How can we hope to heal something we won't even look at!
On the other hand, nothing is healthier for us than the beautiful process of awakening to how we have been unwittingly involved in our own suffering. We stand in good company when we consent to see these truths within ourselves. All truth teachings agree: freedom from compulsive or otherwise self-wrecking behavior begins with recognizing that we have been unknowingly serving what makes us suffer. Yes, awakening to what has been an unseen conflict in us is a challenge, but this interior work of self-realization is more than offset by the rewards gained for our efforts.
Conscious awareness of ourselves is one and the same as living in the Now. It is the seed of a new action whose flowering is a self-wholeness that is inseparable from the higher freedom we seek.
When it comes to self-investigative work, we should always remember one thing: whenever the inner-going gets tough, which it must if we are to grow, it is far better for us to temporarily "fail" at becoming what we intend to be, than it is to succeed at remaining who and what we have been.
