Monday 13 March 2017

The inner life (Simplicity, 5)


Guard your inner self.
There is no greater good for the inner world of man when it is guarded as if it is your own home.
In early days a dominant moral or special quality controlled the inner life-long for example belonging to the elite or being Catholic or being a male. Nowadays the inner self is bombarded. The bombing consists of TV, advertising, social media, the noise on the street and a thousand opinions, judgments, visions and experiences. Because of this there is in the inner self more than necessary an indescribable anxiety, confusion, stress, hustle and imbalance. So the inner self must be guarded as one does for the own home. If it is cold, one closes the windows. If one leaves the house one locks the door. If there is a leak, one orders the plumber. This can also be done with the inner self.

Please do realize you are wide open, and that all the mess from the outside world can enter your inner self, even if you just watch TV or are checking the Internet. Don’t you even wipe your feet when you go inside?
Let the outside world wipe her feet, do not let in parts of the outside world, refuse the avalanche of information. And refuse especially an apparently appealing idea with many spiritual mud in its wake. Your inner peace gets into danger.
Select everything and guard your inner self.
And this can be done in a thousand ways, at least in your own way.
But it starts with this great and simple insight that it is your birth right as a spiritual being and as a child of God to guard your inner self.

My blessings to you all

Nr, 376