Meiten McGuire, Rev. Master

That everyone likes to feel comfortable is probably a safe generalization. Being comfortable has two aspects, it seems to me: we work to hold on to what brings us comfort, and we seek to remove that which makes us uncomfortable.

It is only when we really know that the old status quo will no longer satisfy us that we are primed to look within for a spiritual solution to life’s unsatisfactoriness…. Our training commitment requires that we not be ruled so much by the consideration of the comfort-discomfort continuum and instead respond to that which is good to do, that which needs to be done now. Then we let it go, ready to move on to whatever comes next. We always ask our heart, our enlightened nature, what is it good to do, what is the next step, and we follow. Then we live in life’s simplicity and shed gradually the burden of self.

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