Living Deeply

What Really Controls Us? (Robert Johnson)

 

The unconscious is a marvelous universe of unseen energies, forces, forms of intelligence-even distinct personalities-that live within us. It is a much larger realm than most of us realize, one that has a complete life of its own running parallel to the ordinary life we live day by day. The unconscious is the secret source of much of our thought, feeling, and behavior. It influences us in ways that are all the more powerful because it is unsuspected.

 

Go Plainly and Simply to Him (Brother Lawrence)

I turn over my little omelet in the frying pan for the love of God. When it is done, if I have nothing else to do, I bow down to the ground and adore God from who has come the grace to make it. Then I straighten up, more contented than a king. When there is nothing more that I can do, it is enough to pick up a straw from the floor for the love of God.

People look for methods for learning to love God. They desire to arrive by I don’t know how many different practices. They take great pains to remain in the presence of God by a quantity of means. Is it not much sorter and more direct to do everything for the love of God, to use all the tasks of one’s situation, to give testimony of it, and to maintain His presence within us by this communication of the heart with Him? He has no fancy ways for this. One has only to go plainly and simply to Him