Attaching To An Outcome
To live from the tree of life is to accept what the Word says the proprium is, but do we really believe this? And how does this connect to the need to let go of our attachments to outcomes in spiritual work?
Charity And Church From A Logopraxis Perspective
The closer our understanding comes to recognising charity as an inner practice, the more the ‘church’ within is a true church.
On Lacking Motivation To Work
Can we avoid difficulties and times of struggle in this kind of work? The simple answer is no. But we can learn to navigate them and while it may be difficult to appreciate at the time, this struggle does contain useful material for us.
Giving Up Our Need for Others to Know of Our Suffering
While we are identified with how difficult things are for us we will be constantly looking to draw the attention of others to ourselves and our suffering. This need to have our suffering affirmed by others through eliciting their sympathy only gives force to spiritual associations that bind us to an emotional life dominated by self-pity and other negative emotions.