These simple words given to me in answer to a plea for how to rise above being judgmental are far broader than they at first appeared to me to be. In them lies the secret to transcending all difficulties in life, because almost any suffering is in our heads and therefore, at one level, not real.
To live one’s life using this simple procedure for detachment and for connection with the One, one can, if one chooses, deal with anything. It is the process of letting go of doubts and fears and of simply surrendering to the One and letting it guide you from within.
This came up for me on a day when I am in some physical pain again and need medical attention and also I am feeling a little frustrated at the apparent lack of growth to allow me to do what I want to, to write my book! Then these words came to mind and I saw that they still apply, this time to observing how I create expectations and that when they are not met I get upset or frustrated. From the observance, I can simply let the attachment to that expectation go and trust in the universe to deliver what I need in what my friend calls “Divine Time”. The final reminder that I am not the expectations, I am above them and that attachment brings suffering and it robs one of the joy of being present (living in the "now").
Put another way, this allows one to live with the inner peace that comes when we stop attaching to this material world for gratification and fulfilment and just go with our inner guidance system. It is the realisation of the invitation to “be in this world but not of it”, to live but not to be given or dictated to by the external circumstances and possessions.
So simple yet so profound!
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