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A Hatched Temptation
Painting by a.Siqueiros 3/3/2011 |
The necessary equation of patience with faith arises because we cannot drop out of the world to undergo the growth and do the work needed "weather for hours or for years" unless we trust that "Spirit stands still long enough." In our rapidly changing world there is no objective basis for this trust, other than the knowledge that other people have done it and come through. We simply have to have it, crazy as it may seem at times: faith in the rightness of our aim, in the ultimate fattiness of the obstacles, test, and lessons that present themselves along the way, in the Integrity and Mystery of our own evolution. And like the egg that is cracked under pressure the inner temptation that persists in all of us to evolve to higher consciousness of obtaining a sound mind.
