If it is so easy, why aren't we holy? William Law's answer is that "...we are not as holy as the saints: because we do not wholly want to be."
Why aren't you fit? Because you don't want to be.
Why aren't you 20 lbs. lighter? Because you don't want to be.
But... but... but... if it was important... or if it was something you truly wanted... instead what you truly want, and we know this by our actions, is to sit and watch tv and eat that pint of ice cream. Sorry, that's me, but you hopefully can plug in the greater temptation there.
If you aren't holy, or aren't actively working to be holy, it is because there is something you would rather do. Straight up.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." ~Matthew 5:6
Let's make our religious more than a footnote!
"...seven one-minute prayers at seven different times every day are possible and more effective than one seven-minute prayer a day." page 83
It's those baby steps I've been forever preaching about.
"Buddha... counseled the abolition of all desire. But hope is not a desire. It is almost the opposite of desire, since its object is not something in the future but something in the present: not the good things you want God to give you in the future but the good God who is give you exactly what you need in the present." page 101
"...saints don't do this stuff because they're saints; they became saints because they did this stuff." page 120
"('Religion' means, literally, 'yoking or binding relationship'.)… Do [your] obvious duty as if nothing in the world existed except God and [you]… practice the presence of God." pages 142-143
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