You know, it’s not the path we’re on that is painful. Rather, it’s our belief that we should be on a different one that gives rise to our struggle and pain. It’s our refusal to accept WHAT IS and our resistance to it that amounts to our pain.
Resistance is always painful because it literally is resisting the flow of Life or Love or God which is what you are. There’s nothing more painful than that.
Rumi said
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it
You are always on the path of Love, in Love, in Life. When you are traveling consciously, life is effortless since its flow is uninterrupted. When you are not traveling consciously, when you are caught up in story, you experience pain and struggle. Your judgments, beliefs, expectations, anger, fear, hatred, doubt guilt are some of the barriers you have placed in the path of Love thus obstructing its flow.
Eckhart Tolle says
Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there’
DECIDE NOW that you are going to stop resisting the flow of Life. That instead you’re going to simply notice and accept and allow Life to flow freely.
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