Become Conscious of Our Errors – (1598)

Painful

It is a little painful to become conscious of our errors because while doing so we learn the gravity of our errors and the consequences that we have to face one day. As painful as this is, if we want to stop falling into this kind of error again in the future we must become as conscious of the error as possible.

Necessary – Conscious Shocks

While we ignore our errors we put ourselves on-track to fall into them again.

Meditating (focussing looking deeply into) on our errors seeing as honestly, as extensively and as deeply as possible the gravity and consequences of errors we provide ourselves with several conscious shocks.

These conscious shocks are imperative for us to make changes. We can even go so far to say that no conscious shock equals no change.

First Step

The first step to eliminating any error from our life is to become conscious of it. While in the process of becoming conscious of it we will undoubtedly come across its cause, which will be on or more psychological “I’s”.

The process of becoming conscious of our errors will take on the serious work on these “I’s” that are the cause of these errors.

We will also feel instinctively that before we can have the grace of being able to remove these errors from our psyche and therefore our life, we need to pay the price of having made these errors.

We will also feel naturally and instinctively that the force of repentance is something that will save us and get us across the line. Without it, we feel that something is missing.

Conclusion

Meditate on our errors honestly and deeply as possible and from the sincere yearning to be free from it, the way to doing so will sprout in you. The need for reparation and repentance will naturally rise and flow out of you.

End (1598).