Never think you are too low, too bad, too weak, or incapable of committing yourself to the Divine. This is just a trick of the monkey mind. The Divine doesn’t care about the kind of perfection that we demand in other people. Most of our ideas about perfection are just our preferences, what we like or don’t like; what kind of people we get along with better. These have nothing to do with spiritual perfection. Never seek perfection for recognition. Seek it only in the service of the Most High.
We all enter situations where something irks us, and for a couple of days we may have all sorts of mental conversation about it. If you can put these insignificant things aside without being disturbed in your peace, your sense of harmony and your sleep, you will have taken a great step toward conquering yourself. Many of the things that bother us are very insignificant. We give them much importance from our sense of perfection, but most of the time our idea of perfection is insignificant. It really doesn’t matter.
Look at your life sometime from a cosmic view: here is this whole cosmos and there, somewhere, are you. What do these things really matter? Your needs for exaggeration and self-importance are insignificant. You have to learn to step away from yourself and see that, because where will you be if every grain of sand becomes a big issue? And really the events of daily life are only insignificant grains of sand.
All our thoughts, our dreams, our speculations, our opinions, our convictions and our beliefs really don’t amount to much, except in the area of Higher Consciousness. It is your commitment to the Divine that is the important thing. That is what gives you your place in the cosmos.
The commitment to your own development cannot be replaced by a commitment to another person, and it cannot be imposed on you by someone else. You have to exercise your own free will about commitment, and then put your will behind that commitment.
You will always have highs and lows in life, and you will have them in your spiritual life. Don’t think you will always be riding the crest of the wave. On the crest of the wave spiritual life is easy. But when you are down in a valley and you think the big wave is coming down to crush you, that’s when you have to stand up and look at your commitment and remind yourself. You will never be one hundred percent clear about a commitment. That is a naive belief. But you must still attempt to carry it out. Put yourself into the Light. Bring Light into your life and into your dark corners of selfishness and self-importance.
What you are committing yourself to is eternal life. The choice to do that is yours.
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