Our lives are nothing but a series of invitations, a series of moments in which we run into what we don't know. And in this experience of our own limitations, something good and natural takes place. In its constant stirring and seeking, life feeds back to us the boundaries determined by our present understanding.
But when life brings us moments where we run into the boundary of our present self, something unnatural occurs. Thought comes in and grabs our attention, and the thought nature is not interested in the end of itself. It is not interested in going past anything. It wants everything to confirm its understanding. So it looks at this moment that it doesn't understand, where it meets limitation, and it gets negative towards the unknown. It starts to deny the moment by saying, "No. I don't want this. I don't want to not know. I don't want to be involved in any relationship that I'm not in complete control of."
Then, what was a neutral, perfectly planned event for the purpose of prospering spiritually, for developing and transcending limitation, is now in the hands of a negative self, a very dense self. Haven't you ever noticed that the more negative you get, the more impossible things are? The impossibility that we see when we're negative is the density of the self doing the looking. They are one thing even though they appear to be more than one thing.
It is a very natural moment when life says to us: Would you like to live in a larger world? Would you like to have less fear? Would you like to be less hateful? Would you like to be more kind? Would you like to have more peace? Life brings us moments that actually show us a limitation, a point at which we -- as we have been -- cannot go on. If we will let this moment stand without bringing in negativity by resisting or hating it, and just simply see the moment without trying to free ourselves from it according to our ideas of freedom, then it will do something for us that we cannot do for ourselves.
In that moment appears a new possibility to realize the real purpose of what we see unfolding before -- and within us: First, to look at these moments where we feel limited, troubled, and we run into what we think is the end of our understanding or our ability, and then begin to realize that the very moment that boundary appears to us, we have just received an invitation from a part of higher consciousness that says: Come, I want to walk you into a larger life. I want to walk you past this pain. I want to show you a world that you don't know because you're identified with these thoughts. You are captured, trying to escape limitations that don't belong to you. We can see this, and when that happens, it is just like accepting an invitation to do something we've never done before.
In that moment, instead of resisting what shows us the truth of our present nature, we come wide awake and bring the whole of the moment into this awareness. We will feel that we have reached the end of ourself, and we let it go. The whole of the condition is not what we're blaming for the way we feel. The whole of the condition is our understanding that what we are blaming as being a limitation is connected to the self we are, to our own understanding, and we give it up. We surrender our own understanding because we realize that a greater understanding has brought us to the place where we are invited to do that.
Instead of hoping that things don't happen, we stand in every moment awake, aware, watchful, waiting for those instances where we get a chance to see the boundary line that has appeared between the known and the unknown. We bring the Light into the density of that line, which is secretly what the self understands, and the Light dissolves the density of that self. The line disappears, and we stand on the other side of it.
