Growing Up

 Spiritual progress, recovery, is all about growing up.  When we are not so grown up, we want what we want when we want it.  To be helpful to others out of love of them, in spite of their imperfections, is beyond us.  When not so grown up, we do for others, rarely, but for the getting of something in return.  Ultimately, we are all about ourself.  Spiritual progress and recovery does not mean we are no longer about ourself, but that we grow up to the realization that by being helpful out of love for others, really helps ourself to be a better and more contented person.  We don’t ignore the Self.  We just stop worshipping it.