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Who’s Driving Your Car, You or Another?
“Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.” — Bernie Siegel
I have often heard that it’s a great and positive thing to always pay yourself first, before you pay bills. The rationale is that if you wait to pay yourself after all the other bills and responsibilities have been paid, there may be nothing left for self. If you always postpone paying yourself for last, sooner or later your savings plan will be so depleted that you can’t do a thing about it. Nothing in, nothing out. Now on the other hand, if you pay yourself first, miraculously there will be just enough to pay everybody else also.
This principle of paying yourself first can be applied to your spiritual practice bank. If this is also postponed until all chores, responsibilities and commitments are done, your spiritual bank would be of no effect and you will never be able to fill your spiritual practice.
