Grit & Transmutation

[Steppingfeet]

Tenacity, resilience, etc. come in to play in situations of adversity and, for me, the key elements of the adversity are usually internal.  Ergo, the backbone, endurance and all that are necessary to, basically, prevail over the self because that's usually whom we're resisting.  We're usually resisting our own self-limiting stories which are derived from past (i.e., no longer existing) experiences.  It's these stories, in large part, which prevent us from recognising our self on the level of the green ray, blue ray and so on.

"Adversity" in quick definition is defined as "difficulties; misfortune." I think that adversity would be synonymous with, or at least one variety of, the "quick and cruel catalyst" in the opening quote of this thread.

In exploration of your notion above, the source of all catalyst is, ultimately, the self. In its illusory separate state, the self is constituted of of limiting beliefs/programs about who the self is. The higher function of catalyst is to help the limited self realize the unlimited self. Thus on the road to the infinite self, the limited, separate self must experience its dross and outer husks ground away to make its countours transparent to see and embody/become/return to the infinite self (insofar as those outer husks don't just effortlessly fall away on their own through hyper-effecient use of catalyst).

This grinding action, as it were, could manifest as "quick and cruel catalyst" or adversity. But in the marshaling of grit, I'm not sure that it's helpful to locate the pain/resistance as simply a "self-limiting story" which we carry with us from a no-longer-existing past. For instance, the loss of a spouse who had been their lifelong best friend and companion to, say, a car accident. There is no "outward shelter," says Ra.

That form of catalyst may land as cruel. And the pain that arises therefrom comes ultimately, yes, from identification with form and lack of perfect realization of the eternity and unity of all things.

However, endurance of the grit variety may still be needed. For instance, Carla had to call upon grit in her seven years through the desert following Don's death. Without that, she might have followed him.

Most of us will be rocked by modes of suffering that defy our comprehension, at least at first, and to get through it, even if ultimately generated by the self in the metaphysical universe, we as conscious incarnate entities may first need to figure out just how to endure.
 

So, in my view, grit can help keep one in the game when one is in the stage of struggling within the illusion, but when self is largely balanced and accepted--that is, when catalyst is less physical and emotional, but more spiritual--attributes which are more radiant become more important in the quest of finding self within, recognising the Creatrix inside the fleshy box.

42.10 ...to the balanced entity no situation has an emotional charge but is simply a situation like any other in which the entity may or may not observe an opportunity to be of service. The closer an entity comes to this attitude the closer an entity is to balance.