You will find peace in the heart of the storm. Or rather in the acceptance of hurt, lies its dissolution. If we wholeheartedly accept that our stratagem was defeated – it did not work as we had imagined it would – we see that the acceptance opens up layers within our consciousness which we had hitherto not noticed. It is the living through the apparent pain, remorse, guilt, and humiliation with equanimity that bring about a change in our outlook. And as our outlook changes, so does our destiny. As we become more forgiving, kind, and compassionate after weathering the storm with fortitude; our destiny quietly changes the course of our life events so that we experience gratification, peace, and satisfaction.
“Oh, but we do understand!” you would say. “It is the implementation that is the difficult part.” This kind of reasoning means that there is a time lag between the understanding and the living of what is seen as the truth. In order to reduce and eliminate this time lag, we need to live whatever little we have understood as being truthful, real, and eternal.
Quite often, the understanding flashes across one’s consciousness like a lighting in the sky, but this event which occurs beyond the realm of the phenomenal reality often conveys us a meaning that is really very hard to digest by most of us. It is the realization that we, as a timeless and dimensionless point of awareness, are really not us! That is there is really no me, as it was at birth – and as it will be at death!
And even in between, for what passes as life, there never really is any me. For living – the intensely personal feelings, reactions, and responses to various stimuli – can essentially not be shared with anyone. In that sense, one is always alone. That is the scariest part, which we can not digest.
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