{"id":40718,"date":"2013-03-15T03:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=40718"},"modified":"2015-05-31T03:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T08:30:50","slug":"dont-let-your-spiritual-pride-take-your-personality-where-its-not-prepared-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dont-let-your-spiritual-pride-take-your-personality-where-its-not-prepared-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let your spiritual pride take your personality where it\u2019s not prepared to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you begin consciously on the path to Soul work, what is happening is that your personality has just woken up to the call.\u00a0 It may have felt stirrings come and go, but is now ready to integrate the personality with the Soul. \u00a0This is when personal arrogance comes to the fore, to struggle mind against Soul. \u00a0The mind, meaning the personal-ity, rebels as it feels itself being overpowered by the Soul.\u00a0 In so doing, it becomes its own tool of transformation. In feigning more spiritual understanding than it has with those it wants to impress, the personality will ask for initiation and assure it\u2019s time, the student\/the chela is ready. \u00a0\u201c<em>Give me the shakti, give me the teaching, I am ready for it<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0The guru knows the truth yet is bound to give what\u2019s asked for. The consequences unfold, not as the chela expected. \u00a0It is often years before understanding sets in. When they meet again, it is on more equal footing, facades and power play of the personality having been worked through.\u00a0<em>\u00a0The harder the conditions of life, the more powerful the work; provided however you always remember the work.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Deep soul work is no easy thing until pride and vanity are overcome. \u00a0Deep soul work includes humility, honesty, transparency and willingness to communicate, for all closures and partings to be happy and congenial. \u00a0It\u2019s not for everyone, but oh, the rewards: a lifetime of joy, understanding and fulfillment, no matter who is or is not in it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dont-let-your-spiritual-pride-take-your-personality-where-its-not-prepared-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Don\u2019t let your spiritual pride take your personality where it\u2019s not prepared to go&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dont-let-your-spiritual-pride-take-your-personality-where-its-not-prepared-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dont-let-your-spiritual-pride-take-your-personality-where-its-not-prepared-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dont-let-your-spiritual-pride-take-your-personality-where-its-not-prepared-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Don\u2019t%20let%20your%20spiritual%20pride%20take%20your%20personality%20where%20it\u2019s%20not%20prepared%20to%20go&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dont-let-your-spiritual-pride-take-your-personality-where-its-not-prepared-to-go\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you begin consciously on the path to Soul work, what is happening is that your personality has just woken up to the call.\u00a0 It may have felt stirrings come and go, but is now ready to integrate the personality with the Soul. \u00a0This is when personal arrogance comes to the fore, to struggle mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40719,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718\/revisions\/40719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}