- “Why do things happen to us?”
- “Because we make it possible.”
- “How do we do that?”
- “By our awareness. Or the lack of it.
Life is like our head.
We have eyes on only one side of it.
We manipulate the things we see.
We’re manipulated by things we don’t see.
Sure we have a neck; we can turn and
see what’s not immediately apparent.
But then something else is left out of sight.
We may have seen it earlier;
but now that we aren’t looking at it anymore,
it may have changed and we wouldn’t know.” - “So it’s a bit of both, yes?
Seen as well as unseen?” - “Yes. There’ll always be something left unseen.”
- “And the unseen attacks us.
That’s the root of misery.” - “No. Misery is because we refuse to accept it.”
- “Even if we accept it as a technicality,
it still hurts.” - “The hurt comes from within.
It isn’t offered to us. It’s what we offer to reality.
The remedy is to look within.
These unseen things don’t attack us.
They just show up. We see an ‘attack’ in it,
for they differ to our beliefs.
Beliefs that assume or expect consistency.
Beliefs that demand what ‘should’ happen.
Beliefs that reject anything can and will happen.
Beliefs that reject the naturalness of
inconsistency.
Beliefs that contrast reality itself.
The root of misery is in those unreal beliefs.
Our job is to notice these unreal beliefs.
And quit them.
That enables us to handle reality in real-time;
without freezing in an emotional limbo of
denial.”
© Counselor Apoorva
Psychologist
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