No inner progress is ever wasted. It lasts forever.
Mark Nepo's The Book of Awakening (March 9 entry) tells of how a monkey can be trapped by putting rice in a small opening in a coconut---it can get its hand in but when it grips the rice inside, it can't get its fist out. What are we gripping onto? Could our hold on something be our demise?
The parable of the wheat and the tares can give us insight about how to deal with "evil" in our lives. Do we give up at the first sign of trouble, or overreact? It's okay, it's all God. Sort out the tares later. Put them on the fire of Consciousness. Work on one consciousness at a time---your own.
