Weaknesses
Are in reality forces we can mobilize
August 25th 2015
Humans consider their failings and weaknesses obstacles to their development. This is true, but not completely. If they looked at how they could get their failings to work for them instead of letting themselves be weakened and overwhelmed by them, they would discover that they could be useful to them. You will say, ‘How can they be useful? We should fight our faults and get rid of them.’ You have already tried that, and how easy has it been? Have you won the battle?
All these lower tendencies that you think of as weaknesses are really strengths. Learn to sense all the energies they represent. If you chase all your enemies away, if you get rid of everything that resists you, who will work for you and serve you? Whether it’s sensuality, greed, vanity or anger, they are all forces. Decide to mobilize them, and they will help you to go forward in the spiritual direction you have decided on.