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April 2009 
Call off the Struggle
Andy
Call Off the Struggle
Most people are in a constant state of struggle with themselves. Tremendously burdened by the past and in constant anticipation of the future, most human beings are rarely able to be fully present for more than very brief moments. The tremendous openness and intimacy that is required to be fully present is beyond most people's ability to sustain for more than a few moments before they habitually contract back into the familiar condition of separateness and struggle that so characterizes the human condition. This constant state of struggle manifests as a compulsive and addictive relationship to the movement of thought, emotion, and time.
There is great reluctance to stop struggling because in the absence of struggle you suddenly begin to lose your boundaries and definitions of who you are. For many people this causes fear to arise as they experience the loss of their familiar sense of self. Struggling is how the ego-personality maintains its existence. When you cease to struggle, identification with the personality begins to break down and you become aware of your emptiness and lack of boundaries.
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
It is this locationless freedom of being that spiritual people are seeking, and at the same time are running away from because its faceless nature gives no fixed reference point for the personality to hold onto or to seek security in. As long as you remain identified with the personality, you will always be seeking security to the exclusion of the Truth, and will remain in a constant state of struggle. It is only when your love and desire for Truth outweigh the personality's compulsive need for security that you can begin to stop struggling and be swept up into the arms of an ever-unfolding revelation of the Truth and Freedom of Being.
Adyashanti.
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This really resonated with me, especially the first paragraph. Thank you.
Very Happy to hear it, Sister.
It resonates with me quite a bit as well.
yesterday was a bit of a struggle for me.. and I just did not like it at all.. remembered it all too well from the past….
and today I laugh at myself… saying ” what the hecks wrong with you kiid?” “what was that all about? “
lol
but Thanks to beauty and love I am back …. no struggles, no worries. ;-)
Blessings.
Andy
Very nice my soul Brother. Very nice indeed.
What you resist persists. What you accept you transcend. Transcends is a letting go of; no longer holding on to. Forgiveness leads to transcendence. Forgiveness of ourselves' and others' unconscious actions is the key to enlightenment.
“Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” – Luke 23:34
Before we can forgive ourselves and others. We must first become aware of a negative situation, in our lives, that needs our forgiveness. We then need to accept that the negative situation needs our forgiveness. Only then can we truly forgive ourselves and others.
Awareness/Presence>>>Acceptance>>>Forgiveness
Forgiveness is pure love. Neale Donald Walsch, Friendship with God
“Pure love is who you are! When your express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.”
~Namaste~
*deep bow*
Brian
Hey Brian! We haven't shared a blog for a long time!
I've found that forgiveness of self is one of the toughest challenges for humans; that feeling that they are not entitled to receive the goodness, the blessings of this life. Even though [sub]consciously they know that God forgives, they don't ever step up to let it all go and live the life of the forgiven and the blessed.
Tell you the truth, this is why I am 'preaching' self love, because if we are not 'in love' with us, we cannot give beautiful, freeing love to others and to the world. The resistance within us, which is what essentially the suffering is that Andy speaks of, is blocking the flow of energy that could be right now healing or easing another's pain, and thus creating more love in this world.
When I put it that way, it seems almost selfish to consume myself with my old issues…
Well thanks for the opp to comment. Be loved and better yet, love you. God approves :D
Love you guys from the bottom of my teeny weeny heart! Love Sherri
Hello friends…..totally agree with this blog……thankyou so much for posting it Andy…..you are such a beautiful soul and walking on the same path as many amazing people. Love you :o)
awww man I love you all. truly.
my vocabulary lacks the words to express what I feel I would like to say….
hmmmmm…………
<3
Thanks a ton mates,
I love you all back.
You are quite right Sherrilene. I have been rather busy appling the things that I have been talking about in my blogs to my life. It is one thing to know what to do to heal ourselves and therefore create the realities that we desire, and it is an entirely different thing to go out and apply those things into your life. This is where 'I Am' at right now.
If I tell you that I forgive you will that help? ;-)
Loving ones true self is what life is all about. You can give what you don't have, so if you don't love yourself, how do you suppose you can love another!?
Don't beat yourself up over your unconscious acts that you did in the past. You know better now, so just do what you have to do now to create more beautiful situations in your life. This is the love of God. This is forgivness.
“The remnats of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted and them let go of (forgiven) join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.” –Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
The only person that you hurt by not forgiving yourself or others is YOU.
I hear you Bro. Words are so limited that they can never truly express what I know about myself to others; God cannot be placed in such a small box.
Much love for all of you awesome souls. I am very blessed to be friends with such beautfully loving people such as yourselves. Thank you from the bottom of my heart/soul. You have all helped me grow more than you will ever know.
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