Friday, September 6, 2024
You learn that as your spirit grows, it knows the peace and satisfaction of now. The part of you that must know tomorrow and must have everything figured out is the ego. It’s demanding and petulant. It has to have every problem solved immediately. It needs to have more resources than are necessary, and it blames everything and everyone for one’s own suffering.
The ego can create havoc in the unsuspecting human. It leads you to actions that afterwards you say, “How could I have done that?” Egoic living is compulsive, quick, and harsh. And the ego is never satisfied. It’s not satisfied with what’s in the account. It’s not satisfied with how things look, right now. It’s busy acquiring and hoarding, but it only just over dramatizes the present moment which always contains enough and supplies your needs.
Spiritual living is open. Spiritual mindedness takes inventory and realizes today is enough. A spiritually minded person knows that they’ve created what they see, even challenge. The ego blames others or “misfortune.” Deepening your spirit will help you see that you are always creating. It’s just that we are usually creating unintentionally. We’re creating by fear when we find ourselves in negative experiences. We’re creating by intention when we find ourselves in peaceful and satisfying experiences. When something seems like a surprise, we surrender.
When you give to your spirit, doing what it commands, you’ll be expressing. When you give to your ego, doing what it demands of you, you’ll be scraping and surviving. The spirit merely reaches out and lets go, knowing there is unlimited supply. The ego reaches in and holds on, thinking there is limited supply. If you’re in peace at this moment, happy with what is, and satisfied, you’re living in the spirit. If you’re bored, irritated, or frustrated, you’re living in the ego.