At 07:44 AM 7/19/2006, RFaussette@aol.com wrote:
>The following brief article is from the Vatican news agency Zenit. I
>received it this morning. I post it because of the thread we've been
>having over the words wisdom and then the words
>submission/surrender. Here is the relevant snip. The whole article follows.
>
>[snip] "Reading the texts of the early ascetics, I have come to
>realize that perhaps the most essential lesson learned in life is
>the lesson of ***surrender, of letting go.***
>
>It is a hard lesson, and one that is only reluctantly embraced by
>most of us. But I am convinced that this life is given to us in
>order to learn how to lose. .."
@ The bottom line (key insight): "Putting up with ourselves is the
first and necessary step of learning to put up with others"
It is easy to determine who is and who isn't emotionally
mature. People who are comfortable in their own skin (those who like
themselves), aren't easily "offended" by what others say and do.
Self-loathing, guilt-ridden, omnipotent busybodies - steeped in
political correctness - are the most intolerant people on the face of
the earth.
No degree of spiritual maturity can never be achieved by such
emotionally immature mentalities - regardless of IQ.
~ Janice
>The whole article:
>
>Orthodox Theologian Speaks on Modern Deserts
>Interview With John Chryssavgis
>
>BOSTON, JULY 18, 2006 (<http://www.zenit.org/>Zenit.org).- We can
>only appreciate the mystical dimension of our world and our soul if
>we go through the stage of the desert, says Orthodox theologian,
>John Chriyssavgis.
>
>"I would say that the secret of the desert is learning to lose," he says.
>[snip]
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