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This wasn’t always the case. I was always trying to get away from people.
And then when I was alone, I was trying to get away from my own mind.
What a dilemma! You were irritating and so was I. Kind of a bummer, right?
No situation is good, in this scenario. Every situation could be improved. No satisfaction, no true comfort, no peace.
Eckhart Tolle says the ego LOVES its resentment of reality. Isn’t that amazing?
I ask myself….why? Why would I get off on this resentment of what is? This is not a trick question. It is an actual question. Like, pretend you came from another planet and you find out this is what people do here….they resent what is. Now, see if as an observer you can discover why they would do that.
- I am RIGHT, not wrong. I am brilliant, the One-Who-Knows-All.
- I am more brilliant than God/Source/Whomever Set This Up/Reality.
- If people are suffering here…well, that wasn’t MY idea.
- I am so powerful, with all this brilliance, to see what is WRONG.
- It is not my fault…I am innocent. I am not to blame for this mess.
- It’s their fault. Those people are schmucks. Not me.
- I can’t help being here. This was an accident. I didn’t ask to be born.
- I can remember, daily, what is wrong with this planet and through that, be reminded of what an innocent victim I am.
- I’m off the hook. Not Guilty!
So much fear!
OMG what if I don’t resent what is? Could it then be all up to me? My fault, my problem? But, but, but….I don’t know what to do! I am actually nothing! I’m powerless! A tiny speck in the middle of a gigantic universe!
Exactly.
It’s like if I stop resenting what is, then I’ll have to be faced with the Unknown. I’ll have to admit that I don’t get all THIS. That the little details and resistances of this tiny life are not important. At all.
It will be revealed that I have no idea what’s going on. Which I don’t.
Good News.
“The moment you become aware of a negative state within yourself, it does not mean you have failed. It means that you have succeeded.”~ Eckhart Tolle
I used to think that if I gave up resenting things, people, places, events, weather, life, death, and being “stuck” here….that I would see how meaningless it all is, that it would be even worse, that I would see how pointless, that I would feel absolute despair.
Despair is just another form of resentment, of doubting that THIS is OK.
What if this world is wonderful, friendly, beautiful? What if it is all a big misunderstanding? What if what you are most afraid of is not actually true? What if death, losing an arm, someone getting killed, scary people, or being alone are actually not a problem?
But I will be a traitor if I give up my resentment of reality! Everyone will think I’m crazy!
Aren’t you crazy already? As Byron Katie says, you do what you’re doing, and you either love it or hate it, but you’re still doing “it”. Living.
What if Reality is doing its thing and you’re in this soup and there’s nothing you can do about it, and that is actually NOT A PROBLEM?
“You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions.”~Eckhart Tolle
Much love, Grace
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