"Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do." (Mt 16:23)
Therefore, to think as a human is to be an obstacle? To be Satan? I'd agree with this. The human mind running about all day, judging, chasing after desires, fleeing from the averse, creating anger, wallowing in self-pity, laughing, howling, drinking and gambling, all that we do and call 'just being human' is nothing more than suffering ... even if we refuse to recognise it as such.
Our thinking mind distracts us. Our thinking mind accepts separation and isolation in maintaining its own identity: me versus you, i think, i want, i need, i am. We are so distracted with all that happens to us on Earth that we have forgotten from whence we came, our original being, our original face, that part of us that we share with our Creator. Lumen de Lumine, we say in the Credo, Light from Light.
So we are to think as God does. How is that, we ask? The whole ministry of the Christ points the way: by doing good, by cultivating love and wisdom, we can see more clearly, we are more aware of who we can be. Just look to the saints for more human examples! Prayer. Meditation. Becoming aware how our actions can influence how we think: stop killing, lying, cheating, lusting and
We can do more to think like God. And only then can we put Satan (attachment to that which keeps us separated from God and living in fear, lust, anger, etc.) behind us.
Deo gratias.
Therefore, to think as a human is to be an obstacle? To be Satan? I'd agree with this. The human mind running about all day, judging, chasing after desires, fleeing from the averse, creating anger, wallowing in self-pity, laughing, howling, drinking and gambling, all that we do and call 'just being human' is nothing more than suffering ... even if we refuse to recognise it as such.
Our thinking mind distracts us. Our thinking mind accepts separation and isolation in maintaining its own identity: me versus you, i think, i want, i need, i am. We are so distracted with all that happens to us on Earth that we have forgotten from whence we came, our original being, our original face, that part of us that we share with our Creator. Lumen de Lumine, we say in the Credo, Light from Light.
So we are to think as God does. How is that, we ask? The whole ministry of the Christ points the way: by doing good, by cultivating love and wisdom, we can see more clearly, we are more aware of who we can be. Just look to the saints for more human examples! Prayer. Meditation. Becoming aware how our actions can influence how we think: stop killing, lying, cheating, lusting and
We can do more to think like God. And only then can we put Satan (attachment to that which keeps us separated from God and living in fear, lust, anger, etc.) behind us.
Deo gratias.
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