Episode 140: Nonessentials

Letting of of non-essentials in life seems like a no-brainer if we see them simply as things that are unhealthy for us or are distractions. But our nonessentials can be anything, even good things, that we are entangled in and that keep us from our center. In today's episode, we will identify those nonessentials and let them go so that we can experience "supreme life" and "deepest peace." Our listening portion today: "Everything that is non-essential in s must fall away like ashes in a furnace, in order that the pure gold of our being, thus refined, may shine in the light of grace....For peace begins only in death, with inexpressible bliss of supreme life, which is supreme wakefulness, supreme activity, and supreme intensity, and at the same time deepest calm, deepest peace, and deepest security." Hanns Georg von Heintschell-Heinegg, From Dying we Live: The final Messages and Records of the Resistance. An Austrian poet and theology student who was put to death for his outspoken resistance to the Nazi regime.