The way out of addiction is often the belief in something higher than self, like the brother who has climbed out of the hole and our focus on him is getting us out of this mess.
Spirituality is similar in that once faced with the conditioning of the past there has to be the same willpower to step out of this bondage, “for God’s sake, break free from this pull!”
Yet at the same time, breaking free is about letting go of everything, even of belief, will and religion. So how to square the circle, a yin and yang of holding onto purity and letting go of vice?
Feelings and sentiments come and go, but insights stay. At the end of the day only revelation can catapult us to the next level of consciousness, and it is the little tug-of-war that probably gets us there.
Nisargadatta Maharaj once rightly concluded that the fruit falls when it is ripe. That’s the time when we let go and it happens automatically. Until the day when we realize no effort is required, effort is required.
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