Money constraints, fears to lose out on a fulfilled love life, professional fears, a poor body image, health concerns; you name what is bothering you specifically. Experience these constraints; taste them and you have an insight in the straight-jacket of self. Tackling these issues one by one and bringing well-deserved abundance into our life is what we can and should do, but problem solving and proactive living alone does not transcend self. Rather, the ability to see the straight-jacket self in action is the beginning of its undoing. Next time a desire flares up or a fear strikes, become aware of it just as you cannot help noticing a tooth-ache. It’s literally the same thing, an interference with the beauty and magic of life. We can observe the straight-jacket self even when the going is supposedly good and we are getting what we were rooting for yet it doesn’t make us happy other than experience a short-term high.
Nothing ever changes. We were born in the straight-jacked self and unless we find a way to get out of it, we are doomed to die in it. Only by stepping out of self entirely can we create the revolution within.
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