Unspoken
Rule
“The
more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more
resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”
Steven
Pressfield (The War of Art)
Do
you ever wonder why you have so much resistance to doing something
you know you should do? I catch myself thinking, “I should do
that,” and the next thing I know, I'm involved in something totally
different, as though I'd never had the thought. There seems to be an
innate mechanism that automatically deflects thoughts and actions
that would move us along a path to individuation and freedom. We have
resistance to opening our minds and hearts to people who are
different, for instance. We close down in the face of ideas and
positions that challenge us. We want always to stay the course and
keep the equilibrium. Living open is difficult; it requires something
of us. We can't just cruise along on a calm sea.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson is quoted as saying, “All life is an experiment. The
more experiments you make the better.” Instead of cruising, we
could do what Thoreau suggested and “live deep and suck out all the
marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to
rout all that was not life...” We could, instead of living on the
superficial surface of life, obsessed with looks and clothing and
status, dive into it and discover the deep oceans available each day.
Then at the end of life, whether short or long in years, we would
know that we had lived well and experienced much. We could consider
the Dalai Lama's teaching: “A tree with strong roots can withstand
the most violent storm. But a tree cannot grow roots just as the
storm appears on the horizon.” Don't wait to live life. Buck the
resistance you feel and jump in with both feet.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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