What to Do When It Feels Like Life Is Trying to Rip You Apart

What we call our struggle with life isn't really "out there" in the world at all. It begins within us, as an unseen conflict between a life we imagine as our own, and the Light that reveals it is not. Because we don't see the true origin of this tension, it appears to us as something outside -- a person, a problem, a pressure -- when in fact it's a dark reflection of (our own) unconscious resistance being mirrored back.

And this is why, left to ourselves, we cannot "overcome" what seems to come over us.

We're trying to fight a shadow while standing in the dark. We're swept away by the same inner storm again and again, believing each time that life has set itself against us. It has not. Which is why only a new and higher order of awareness -- not struggle -- can break that cycle.