Leviticus 26:41 · World English Bible
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
Everything keeps going against them until the proud heart is at last humbled and accepts what has come. This is the turning point of all suffering.
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EGO & BEING
Everything keeps going against them until the proud heart is at last humbled and accepts what has come. This is the turning point of all suffering. As long as the ego resists, insisting that this should not be happening, the pain only deepens and the land of the enemy holds them fast.
There comes a moment when the resistance breaks and the heart bows, no longer at war with the reality it is in. To accept what has happened is not to call it good. It is to stop struggling against what is already so. And in that surrender, and only there, the long punishment begins to end.
Ego v. Being lens
What am I still insisting should not have happened, and what is that argument costing me?
Do not demand that things happen as you wish. Wish them to happen as they do, and your life goes smoothly.
Pain in life is the first arrow. The second arrow is the one we fire into ourselves by insisting it should not be happening, and only the second one is optional.
The living are soft and yielding. The dead are stiff and hard. What bends survives the storm that snaps what refuses to move.
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Ego v. Being