Sit with yourself until S (erenity) E (nergy) L (ove) F (low) is

 I noticed the desire to be liked. A while later I noticed the desire to eat something even though I already had eaten. Somehow these two sentiments appeared to be connected. Most of the time we are not aware of these energies, i.e. we just do what we feel gets us appreciation and we eat even though the body doesn’t need it.

 

If we allow the negative pull from our personality identity and act on it—the regret, the guilt, the restlessness, the longing, the fear—we will also fall for the positive push—the passion, the pleasure, the power, the pride. It’s a never-ending cycle of pleasure and pain, and it is subconscious, the one necessitates the other.

 

Spiritual living is sitting with these energies without resisting them, and without abiding in them either. Just sitting with them with empathy and understanding. When we can look through the games we play with these longings and aversions, the karmic wheels come to a rest. Look through the identity energies—serenity, love and empowerment await.