07-13-2022, 11:41 AM
(07-13-2022, 10:22 AM)Diana Wrote: I do not mean to diminish conscious intention, but I do think this can manifest as a thin sheet of positivity like ice on a lake, with the lake underneath still untransformed and full of catalyst not yet dealt with. In this circumstance, perhaps a person may need to address the (let's be honest here) destructive aspects of organized religion in order to not push it down or just say it doesn't matter, and integrate this into a bigger picture. Just deciding to be loving may have its benefits, but let's not dismiss the journey we all make toward that wider grasp of existence wherein by opening up little by little the heart is able to assimilate the greater energy of unconditional love.
That journey of opening up bit by bit is enabled by a process of separating a chunk of catalyst off and keeping the rest beneath your frozen lake.
This brings to mind a line from the Robert Frost poem...
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake,
The darkest evening of the year.
As I read it, the whole point of the mess of 3D confusion is to inspire one to abstract from the mayhem the beauty. What lies beneath the crust will be dealt with in due course (maybe sooner, maybe later). For now, our task is to hold our wee candle up to the darkness so as to discover the infinite source of radiance within. If one can find a pathway to eternal beauty via religious practice, why would others with a spiritual bent not honour that? Why squirt personal discontentedness over it? After all, at this time on this planet, such pathways are not easy to come by.