Fires of Purification

One is not truly in the fires (of purification) until this sense of **me and
mine** gets directly challenged. This border of the private world in which one
always returns to for safety and solace needs to be crossed over into the
unknown.... and one's life surrendered into the hands of grace for conditionings
to wear away ---
...It is quite a different thing when one is faced with this choice -- compared
to a philosophical idea of it.... The beauty of it is that it is not what one
*thinks* on the other side..... and can only serve one well if let go into.....