Michael Bernard Beckwith is one of those shining lights of truth and magic. Every once in awhile, I actively remember that and go pull my copy of Spiritual Liberation off the shelf and open it randomly, seeing what Spirit pops me with. Sunday, I did that, pulling off the same shelf Pema Chodron's Start Where You Are and Gregg Braden's The Divine Matrix ... looking for random bits of wisdom to post this week while I sort some things out and decide if anyone but me is interested.
So I opened Spiritual Liberation to this: Let us not make excuses for ourselves. ....Gandhi....the Dalai Lama, and other emissaries of peace...are all ordinary people who have responded to life in an extraordinary way. Their mothers weren't virgins; they didn't arrive on the planet by special means. ... It is not necessary to don monastic robes or clerical collars...to be counted among the growing number of spiritual revolutionaries. ... Start Right Where You Are [header] (Spiritual Liberation, pp 124, 125)
Huh. Here I am in the middle of a periodic reevaluation of what's going on and how (or whether) I'm contributing anything to the spiritual well-being of the world (and beating myself up over the lack of progress on several things over the past couple of months), and I open this book at random to find a heading staring at me that is similar to the title of the next book in the stack. And it's a great reminder: Start where you are. Not being a terribly accomplished quantum magician, I'm pretty sure I do not have the ability to go back and change anything. I have to start where I am. Truthfully, I've started from worse places, so I suppose that's an improvement.
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