When we say, “I refuse to be greedy,” then who is the entity who says that exactly? The entity that has been greedy all life long, often in disguised form so that even we didn’t pick up on it. Or is it the entity that promises to be different in the future because we can’t be greedy, can we? I picked greed here in this example as many of us can resonate with this drive, but it can be lust, pride, envy, insatiability, anger, inertia—you pick what resonates best for you.
Why don’t you own what bothers you for a moment rather than wishing it away. If you are on a spiritual quest, you can take my word for it that in the so-perceived short-coming lies your ticket to freedom. “Hold fear like a jewel,” J. Krishnamurti once said. Don’t separate yourself from the personal “I”. You are that. Don’t wish it away. Don’t appeal to a higher energy, but stay with it, wrap your arms around it, ask it what it really stands for, and then find a way to let go of it.
As within so without. If peace, abundance and love elude you right now, there must be some inner interference that prevent you from enjoying it. The external environment adjusts when the inner conditions to invite serenity, abundance and love are met, just as the external environment always has hints for us what forms of resistance we still have. A successful spiritual quest has two requirements, honesty to see life and us as is, and the persistence to put things in the right place.
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