No matter what’s happening to you in Life, learn to just
be a witness. Just be. Don’t fight. Don't resist. Don't detest. Be patient. Just
accept. Just be. When you are this way, peace will engulf you, drenching you in
bliss. You will then see yourself as the Light that you seek.
When
faced with Life's inscrutable ways, we often spend a lot of time in denial__of
what's happening to us. Or we end up asking, 'Why?' or 'Why Me?'. We hope that by
asking, we will be answered. We hope to reason with Life. We demand logic.
But
Life doesn't understand those questions. Life doesn't work that way. Life's
mechanical, in a manner of speaking, like a tennis ball machine, that keeps
spewing out ball after ball – event after event, experience after experience.
Non-stop. When the experience that comes your way meets or exceeds your
expectations, you call it opportunity. You say 'WOW!, Life's Great!' When the
ball that comes your way does not meet your expectations and shocks you, you
say 'Life Sucks!' or you ask 'Why?' or 'Why Me?'.
There's
no way you or I can control what comes our way. Instead of greeting what's coming
with shock, resistance and disbelief, we can be accepting and patient. This way,
we can work on solving our problems to the extent we can or face each new day,
and its attendant challenges, with grace and resolve. Remember each of Life's
experiences is to make you mature, better and stronger. Jalaluddin Rumi, the
13th Century Persian mystic and poet, said it so simply, so meaningfully: "No
mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape
ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the
worse. Become the light."
Which
is, when we learn to be more accepting of Life, we become the light we seek!
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