4-31 “I have created nothing disdainful”
4-31 “I have created nothing disdainful”
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> That’s okay. That’s all right. The sexually active are no less qualified for enlightenment, no less spiritually evolved, than the sexually inactive.
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What enlightenment and evolution do cause you to drop is your addiction to sex, your deep need to have the experience, your compulsive behaviors.
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So, too, your preoccupation with money, power, security, possessions, and other experiences of the body will vanish. Yet your genuine appreciation for them will not—and should not. Appreciation for all of life is what honors the Process I have created.
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Disdain for life or any of its joys—even the most basic, physical ones—is disdain for Me, the Creator.
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For when you call My creation unholy, what do you call Me? Yet when you call My creation sacred, you sanctify your experience of it, and Me as well.
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I tell you this: I have created nothing disdainful—and, as your Shakespeare said, nothing is “evil” lest thinking make it so.
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> (CWG 2:78)
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According to Conversations with God, spiritual enlightenment and growth are not achieved through asceticism alone.
Sex, money, power, possessions, and other physical or material experiences are all part of the human journey through which we experience our own divinity. They are neither evil nor something to be rejected or feared.
The key is to remember two essential principles:
Do not become addicted to them, and do not cause harm to others.
Addiction means allowing external things to take control of your life. Instead of being their conscious creator, you become their servant. When this happens, you lose your inner freedom, and your spiritual growth is hindered.
*Tomorrow’s God* expresses this idea beautifully:
It is true that overemphasizing anything creates imbalance and drains energy.
Too much work, too much food, too much drink, too much sugar, too much gardening, too much bowling, too much swimming, too much television, too much carrot juice, too much sex… anything done to excess—even spiritual practice—throws life out of balance.
There is another principle that is equally important.
Whatever we choose to do should always be done with the agreement and consent of everyone involved. No pursuit of pleasure, success, or personal fulfillment should come at the expense of another person’s well-being or dignity.
As Conversations with God reminds us:
“No action involving another may be taken without the other’s agreement and permission.”
(See 4-17.)
When these two principles are honored—freedom from attachment and respect for the freedom of others—physical life itself becomes a sacred expression of the soul. In this way, even the ordinary experiences of the body become opportunities to know and express the Divine.
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