You never know where someone is coming from -- what is inside, what motivation and intention is operating, what the actual agenda is. Often I don't even know where I'm coming from, how honest I'm being, what my intention really is. Taking each footstep as an act of devotion toward something holy means to me to be sincere, behave out of my own inner truth, have integrity. When I live that way, which is all too seldom, I am being whole which in my book means I am being holy. When my climbing is selfless, my focus is the process of following my truth. When ego-climbing, my focus is my trying to make a certain ego outcome happen. When selfless, I don't know where my climbing is taking me except that it is line with real me. When ego-climbing, I am climbing toward my ego goal. A time that the difference between the two is clear to me is when I speak to impress compared to when I speak because what I have to say is true for me and I don't care what the other thinks of me. When I do the latter, I feel a satisfaction, I am holy. I ought to do it more often.
On May 5, 2013 david doane wrote :
You never know where someone is coming from -- what is inside, what motivation and intention is operating, what the actual agenda is. Often I don't even know where I'm coming from, how honest I'm being, what my intention really is. Taking each footstep as an act of devotion toward something holy means to me to be sincere, behave out of my own inner truth, have integrity. When I live that way, which is all too seldom, I am being whole which in my book means I am being holy. When my climbing is selfless, my focus is the process of following my truth. When ego-climbing, my focus is my trying to make a certain ego outcome happen. When selfless, I don't know where my climbing is taking me except that it is line with real me. When ego-climbing, I am climbing toward my ego goal. A time that the difference between the two is clear to me is when I speak to impress compared to when I speak because what I have to say is true for me and I don't care what the other thinks of me. When I do the latter, I feel a satisfaction, I am holy. I ought to do it more often.