Every complaint, any negative reaction produced by a moment resisted, secretly serves to glorify an indwelling darkness that wants you to see your life as being incomplete.
Worrying over any problem seen as gathering in the distance -- in order to avoid feeling disturbed by it in the present moment -- is a lot like throwing cold water all over yourself so that then you can have the pleasure of wrapping yourself up in a warm towel!...
A battle is waged in the deep of me, an epic struggle 'tween sand and sea; where one resists, the other, so free... Yet, no loss or gain marks Eternity.
It may be said that one finds freedom from suffering over oneself in direct proportion to one's realization that there is no separate self whose suffering is to be resisted.
A battle is waged In the deep of me, An epic struggle 'Tween sand and sea, Where one resists The other, so free... Yet, no loss or gain Marks Eternity.
Part 1To find the part of you that can love whatever any moment brings to you, is to realize the part of you that never fears or regrets anything that happens.Part 2Until we understand the unseen relationship that exists between self and its wants, we can never know what it really means to be true to our Self.Part 3As long as the highs and lows..
It’s impossible to resist the revelations inherent in our day-to-day interactions with life, and to realize the lessons they bring with them at the same time.
We can spend our lives anxious and fearful over each arrival of some unwanted moment -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from it -- or, we can use each similar situation to see the following: resisting any negative reaction is the same as turning a blind eye to the lower level of self responsible for it... a dark nature that wants us to believe "not wanting" something is the same as worki...
The real reason negative states persist is because we resist seeing the following truth: blaming others for the pain we feel is like resenting our pants for being too tight.
We live within... and under an unseen Law: whatever we resist -- deny or reject -- about our past is destined to become a part of our future...