On a feeling of Lack and Resentment
When the oft experienced veil of ignorance clouds the vision and we appear discrete separate bits to each other; when the “Unseen Hand” that is faithfully carrying each of us becomes invisible to our seeing, then we walk into the hell of feeling inadequate and lacking in love, in success, in capacity and so on. When Grace steps in dispelling the clouds over our eyes, once more the sun of the invisible hand becomes visible. We see that at every moment it is carrying each of us to our ‘unique optimum’ of success, love and capacity. The previous echo of ignorance intoning “I do not have what he/she has and so I feel small and resentment” is muted into the knowing; “My optimum is unique to me. Her optimum is unique to her. The ‘unseen hand’ knows exactly how much of the desired object/goal is good for me and carries me to that exactly measured optimum. More or less are meaningless. It is senseless to resent another’s achievement because what goes to that one was her due from the unseen han...