June 08, 2024 – B

There is wanting 
what we want to want,
and there is wanting
what we ought to want,
and there is wanting 
what someone else wants us to want.

What variety of wanting
is the wanting
we want most of the time?

The spiritual life
is linking our wanting
with the wanting we ought to want
via our intrinsic intuition.

Our intrinsic intuition
wants us to want
what we ought to want
all of the time.

Like Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden,
we serve a different idea
most of the time.

That would be our idea
of what is worth wanting.

Spirituality is all about
aligning ourselves
with the wanting of our
intrinsic intuition -- 
or, as it is sometimes called,
"God's will for our life."

"God" is experienced
as intrinsic intuition.

Intrinsic intuition is experienced
as "God with us"
throughout our life.

When we live at one
with our intrinsic intuition,
we are living at one with "God."
Or/and at one with the "Tao."
Etc.

It doesn't matter if there is
a Super Cosmic Intuition "out there,"
our intrinsic intuition is our link
with all the intuition there may be.

Which is to say,
when we are at one with our
intrinsic intuition,
we are at one with the intrinsic intuition
of everyone who is at one with their
intrinsic intuition.

Like ants at one with the entire 
mound of ants.
Like bees at one with the entire
hive of bees.
Like birds at one with the entire
flock of birds.
Like fish at one with the entire
school of fish...

You know, like that.

Intrinsic intuition connects us all
with all of those who are capable
of being connected with us
through the experience of intrinsic intuition.

The catch is that the moment
we begin doing what we want
and not what we ought to want,
we break the connection,
and we are wandering 
through the wasteland on our own.

Such is the meaning of 
"Thy will, not mine be done."

To say that and mean it
is to divest ourselves of doing what we want
at the expense of what we ought to want
all our life long.

To say that and mean is
is to bring an immediate end
to life as we know it
throughout the world and the cosmos.

It is a terrible thing
to fall into the hands
of the living God
(Of our intrinsic intuition).