Money Troubles

A friend of mine is struggling with debt and asked for some advice. This was the response, edited for the medium.

First, it’s useful to understand a few things. For one, the nature of money. Money is just a symbol. A medium of exchange. A form of energy, in a way, as it’s the ability to do work. But it has no meaning in and of itself, other that what value we give it. This plays in the stock market all the time as the fortunes of companies are made and lost largely on how the company is perceived. Economies run much the same way – it’s more about perceived value than actual.

We live in a culture that pushes the value of stuff on us constantly, so it’s easy to think our value depends on what we have and that we should want lots of stuff. The most heavily advertised stuff often has little real value. At the same time, we receive very mixed messages about money and wealth. It’s one of the reasons money is such a major issue in many lives and relationships.

It’s also important to recognize that each of us has our blind spots, the places where we resist, where our karma shows up. If much of your life is working really well, except with money, you’ve made really good progress.

Next thing to understand is the mechanics of what I call the story. The internal messages we have running on autopilot, coming from habit mind. No matter how well you understand consciously, as long as the sub-conscious drivers remain, your efforts will be thwarted. It only takes one moment of lost insight to blow a budget.

The story runs on what might be called the identity construct. It has 3 primary layers – the core identity which is sub-conscious. The emotional drivers of that. And the conscious mind that hears the stories and seeks to understand, justify, and otherwise respond. And it has the silliness to think it’s in control. (laughs)

There’s a couple of key points:
- you can’t solve a problem on the level of the problem. You remain part of the problem. You have to, as Einstein suggested, take a step back out of it. Only then can you have perspective. As long as you are in the problem, it will remain a blind spot and apparently unsolvable.

- as the identity above notes, the energy drivers of the story are the emotions. So if you want to nip the behavior in the bud, you need to pay attention to how you feel. Then you will see the story while it’s coming up. This is what is driving the behavior, not your understanding. Not the thoughts. As it becomes more recognized, you can see it arising and nip it in the bud.

It’s also worth noting that you cannot change your thoughts. It’s a pointless exercise to even try. Your thoughts arise spontaneously. Same with the emotions. What you can change is how you respond to them. What you believe. What you give attention to. As you begin to see through the story as just some drama, it begins to be diffused and dissipates. Without energy to drive it, it stops arising.

Congrats for facing your demons. Remember that they are boogie men and our fears far outweigh that actual danger.

Asking for help is a great first step. Beware the quick fix artists and legal loophole promoters. Who’s credit are we playing with? Are they asking you to pay for advice? Not necessary – there are free credit counselors all over North America. With options that may surprise you. Just Google ‘free credit counselors’ with the name of your area.

There is no shame in being human. This is really common and facing it clearly allows you to make choices and change. Being unwilling puts you at the mercy of other forces. You become a victim of yourself.

One of the reasons the current economic troubles are as challenging as they are is the debt load that the majority of people carry. Debt they were invited to take over and over. But the economy goes in cycles and if people depend on income and investments to keep climbing, at some point, there will be a correction. And if people are living on the edge of a paycheck, it doesn’t take much to push the house of cards down.

There is some facts about money that are not taught in schools. Even in University economics classes. We use a financial system in much of the developed world based on fiat currency. Our money has no actual value. It’s just fancy paper, ever since we left the gold standard. The nominal value printed on the front is completely relative to demand. Currency markets are constantly adjusting the perceived value. It only has value if people think it does. History teaches us this lesson.

The key detail is that when you make a loan or use your charge card, you are creating money with your signature. That cash did not exist until that moment. With that money, you then purchase goods, stimulating the economy. If you have debt, you pay interest on that spending. Everyone has profited from your money creation.

If you are then not able to repay all those funds, who has lost? Where did the money come from? You created it. Certainly there are consequences to failure but they are temporary setbacks. There are no debtors prisons. Nothing is lost that you actually owned, unless you put it on the line. It’s much like a chess game. Pieces may be lost but only until the next game.

Put another way, it’s only a problem because you see it is a problem. It is only a problem of perception. A challenge perhaps, but not a problem. It’s the nature of being human to fall down a few times on the journey.

It’s not appropriate to share others examples here, but suffice to say, when you are willing to be with it as it is, to allow what is present and be OK with it, then you can begin to move towards a resolution. It doesn’t mean you have to be happy about it. Just stop pretending it’s anything other than what it is. No boogey man. No end of the world.

You don’t have to find a solution, you just need to step out of it and begin moving towards a solution. It’s remarkable what can arise.

And here is the best part. Through this process, we can learn a HUGE lesson in allowing, in being OK with what is. This can take us way ahead emotionally and spiritually. A lesson that will serve us very well long term. It may not have been the end of the chapter you planned, but the next chapter may really surprise you.

The key is commitment to see it through and allowing what is to be as it is. Blame, shame, fear and all that trash is just arising from a resistance to what is. And that is a resistance to your happiness.

Remember, there is no alone here. We’re in this together.
Davidya

The Spiritual Teacher

In a few posts here, I’ve written about finding a teacher. In his latest newsletter, Nirmala quotes an article on how a spiritual teacher’s role is a little different than a regualr teacher:

“In general, a teacher or mentor is a person who guides, instructs, or helps another in the process of gaining knowledge, understanding, or skills. What about a spiritual teacher or mentor? What is their role? And more specifically what does a spiritual teacher or mentor in the nondual or Advaita tradition do? A spiritual teacher/mentor’s role is unique in that the goal is not to transmit knowledge or understanding as much as it is to somehow bring about a recognition in the student of the student’s own pre-existing nature. This is a much more subtle thing than simply teaching someone a skill or understanding. It is not that a spiritual teacher never gives knowledge or understanding, but that knowledge or understanding by itself is not the goal. A student can have a broad knowledge of spiritual principles, and yet can still not have truly recognized those principles as being inherent in his or her own being. So spiritual teachers or mentors may teach a lot or they may not teach anything, depending on what  the student needs in that moment to experience this deeper recognition of their own true nature.

This may seem like a subtle distinction between the role of a spiritual teacher and a regular teacher, but it makes a huge difference. The regular teacher usually has something specific to transmit, and there is often an implied assumption that the student will have more understanding or be better off when the teaching is completed. But the spiritual teacher is pointing to something that is already present in the student. It is like teaching someone to have shoulders. You can’t really teach the having of shoulders to someone who already has shoulders! But you can make them more aware of the shoulders they already have…”

Refinement

In several places over the last couple of days, the subject of refined perception has come up. One fellow described how on a walk, everything seemed to come alive and be brighter, more 3D. Another shared seeing fluorescent colours but without 3D. How they were woken at night with song and discovered it was their body singing. I’ll share a few observations here.

This is refined perception. As we culture and cleanse our nervous system, more refined values of what is already there begin to become perceived by the various senses. Again, as we change the perceiver, what is perceived shifts. We change our world.

Sight can be the most obvious. You may find the brightness and aliveness deepens until that sense of aliveness comes alive, you literally see life itself. Some begin to see qualities of things, the gunas or subtle elements. These are typically described as auras but note that auras are not one thing. There are a series of values, each with their own quality sets. The subtle bodies we could say. The field values between pure energy and form.

The colours can be quite bright but they’re not in physical space so not as defined. The subtler they are, the less defined. More deeply, the light of creation itself can be seen. Everything glows golden. We literally see the light of God.

Still more deeply, the movement of stillness within Itself. The flow of love that underlies all expression. We see creation as it happens.

We are immersed in this at all times. It is only in how we look. Put another way, who it is we look from.

Refinement of hearing can discover layers of experience the same way.
Vibration, tone, and song.
You may find that everything has it’s song and the song is full of wisdom. You may also find everything has a ‘true name’. A name that encapsulates it’s form. There is a direct relationship between name and form on a subtle level, called Ritam for short, that consciousness which accepts only truth.

Others may find refinement of touch, feeling vibrations and tones. The body may seem to be intensely or subtly vibrating inside. You might find you can feel the vibrations when you touch something. As everything is formed of vibration, everything has vibrational qualities. One can literally feel the vibe. Deeper, you can feel life and consciousness in what you touch. Deeper, when you touch you feel both touching and being touched. You are one with the perceived.

Taste can draw out the richness in quality fresh food, taste the life in it. Smell is another layer. It’s associated with the earth element so is the closest to the physical. There can be divine sweetness floating in the air. There is also a kind of synesthesia were the senses draw together close to their source. We taste something we touch or smell, see the colour of a sound.

This stuff can sometimes arise in the most surprising of spaces.

At some point, this refinement also reveals life forms that abide in subtler values of consciousness. The doers that bring ideas into form.

Spiritual progress leads to changes in the physiology to support this, so it’s not just an instant thing, although we may have flashes of it here and there. There’s actually a whole science to the changes in subtle physiology. Refined digestion of food produces a substance called Ojas which refines, vitalizes and immunizes the body. Gives the skin that glow.

Strong presence and transcendence can trigger a subtle gland in the upper back of the throat to produce what is called Soma or Amrita. You may notice a sweet taste sometimes after a very deep meditation or profound experience.

The ambrosia of immortality, the nectar of the gods, indeed the very fountain of youth in legends of old. Soma is praised so highly in the ancient texts that some have attempted to find the ‘juice’ or even hallucinogenic mushroom thought to be described, not realizing it is within us. They miss the point that the sages are not describing an acid trip but the world we already inhabit.

We can see that openness to these experiences can make a difference in willingness to perceive but in some ways it has more to do with habits of perception and refinement of our vehicle. Clarity on the levels of our being. It’s worth noting that these should be considered side effects, not goals.

If you’re not getting this stuff and want it, not to worry. It’s not like we culture it in the west. Let it come in its own due course and it will develop naturally. You don’t want it too early or you can get distracted. Just as you tend to emphasize certain senses, so too will that be where you’re most likely to see it develop. But don’t expect it to be like any concept of it. Life is always grander than any idea we might have.
Davidya

Surrender

When we are in the world, we are in the field of action, of doing. We need to think and plan and act and accomplish. On the spiritual path some of the same attention is also required, but more lightly. More as a preparation. Tapas or warming they call it in Sanskrit.

Ultimately, the spiritual path becomes a path of not doing. Of allowing. Of being here now. Of being OK with what is. Of being present. Of complete acceptance. Of surrender.

There are many ways of saying this, but it’s not something mind can grasp. Mind needs time, it needs a process to step through, something it knows. In the west, this is not something we teach nor get raised with normally. We are taught the work ethic but not the being. Not how to simply be.

We might think surrender or allowing means releasing or some emotional experience, but these are still doing. It is the end of doing, the end of release and letting go that brings us to not doing, to allowing.

An example we might use is prayer. An effective prayer is not just in the action, in the ritual of it. It is in the surrender to God. It is not in asking, it is in accepting. Thy Will Be Done.

It may seem a small difference, but it is the difference between night and day, between ego and awakening. When we get good at it, we begin to see that life is a perpetual surrender to itself. Love is perpetually bestowing Itself to Itself through allowing itself to be.

We are stepping out, then falling back within. This is the way of all things and the nature and purpose of our life. Be still and know that I am God.

The end of suffering. Unlimited happiness. A cup that overflows. Deep freedom. Peace that passeth understanding. Knowledge of reality. Being love itself. These may sound like foolish fantasies, a pipe dream. But they are our human birthright. Our natural state.

Most of us have been stuck for some time, part way through the process. This is the nature of the illusion of time, building an experiential process. As TS Eliot put it,

And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all” —
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say, “That is not what I meant at all.
That is not it, at all.”
….
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

The Pill

Over on Beyond Happiness, Kaushik asked:
“The question: What is the red pill of awakening?

I can now see why I’ve lived in the “dualistic” mind for most of my life. Let’s call this the first obstacle. Once we realize that the mind-stuff is delusion, why don’t we instantly awaken? What is the resistance? (Let’s call this the second obstacle of awakening).

I’m not looking for the usual answers. Yes, it’s the tricks of the ego, and expectations of awakening, and beliefs and desires, the meaning of awakening, attachment to practice, trying to achieve awakening, and the rest. You might say the journey is necessarily a meander, and what we need will manifest at the right time. Fair enough. But not good enough.

What I’m exploring is this: what transcends all of this instantly?

It seems that Consciousness would delight if we awakened. Once we see the delusion, and the intention is there, why does it take time and space?”

Firstly, it’s good to have some experience of Self within, of our true nature. Thus we have a sense of a ‘target’. This is why I recommend effortless meditation.

The second obstacle you mention I call the core identity. It has the quality of gripping in the gut and typically remains sub-conscious until well after awakening. This seems to be a catch-22. But the release of the identity leads to the second awakening or unity so it’s clearly not necessary yet.

We don’t awaken when we realize the mind is illusion because it’s the mind that has realized that. It is not the mind that wakes up. It may seem I am my concepts. This is of course identification. If we are in it, we can’t see we are. Tricky stuff.

Understand that the mind is a habit machine. Even after a realization, it still regurgitates it’s story. The core identity or holding, the source of the resistance, is still present driving the drama. Also note that the sub-conscious mind operates much faster than conscious mind, making it tricky to out-maneuver. But because it runs from habit, we can see the patterns. Once fully seen, they can be cleared.

We also don’t awaken (necessarily) with soul awakening. When we realize we are that inner transcendent silence. We realize our inner connection with source and may thereafter feel as a detached witness. But at the same time, the ego maintains it’s story. So we remain both ego and Self in some value. Close but no cigar.

Not to downplay such realizations though. Many of us will have a whole series of realizations on our journey. A few are key markers but each do contribute.

Why does it take time and space? It doesn’t. It simply appears to occur that way. Understand that the world exists as a way for Self to discover itself. Without qualities, how can it be known? Time and space arise from the process of experience. Without a process, the mechanism cannot be seen. Thus awakening seems to occur in time and space so the process can be known. Without that, I could not answer your question. It would have simply happened, as it does for some.

So to your main question. The red pill? In a word, surrender.

That is the key to ‘instant’ enlightenment. It is the mechanism of awakening. It is only when we fully surrender, even for just a moment, that we shift from being a person experiencing Self to being Self experiencing a person. This is awakening.

From what I’ve seen, this is MUCH easier to do around the awake. It’s not necessary but easier. They can also confirm the new experience as well. When we’re in the world of the not awake, there is no pattern to emulate except in occasional deep meditations. Around the very awake, the sense of Self is much stronger, so we can “mirror” being much more easily and are also more confident to surrender to it.

By comparison, you may have experienced the benefits of group meditation or intention. Just remember, it’s all about the group. There is no person here so any idea of “doing it myself” or “I will awaken” is bogus. Awakening has nothing to do with a me. The Me is the illusion to wake from.

I know some people who have ‘popped’ by themselves, but it’s much more common on a conference call with a group or on a retreat. I’ve been on retreats where 2/3 of the people were awake. Almost everyone who wasn’t already, was within a couple of days. Even people you’d never dream as being “ready”.  All they had to do is let go into what was felt palpably.

Partly, this speaks to our time, that it has become much easier. It once took months of long meditation to experience what is routine now.

Consciousness more than delights when one awakens. For the Self, it’s like awakening further. This is where “popping” comes from. You feel yourself ‘popping’ larger when someone awakens. In a group, there is often a wave of laughter and crying for joy. Sometimes, love flows in astonishing ways.

You cannot awaken through the mind, with any technique or teaching or understanding. They can bring you to the door but it’s you that has to step through. But the stepping is not something you do. It’s the stopping of doing. It’s the divine surrender. It’s the allowing so deeply, it’s more like you fall through the door. Just fully let go and allow it to be as it is. No conditions. Awareness Now, as you mentioned. Thats it.

Remember that you already are That. It is only a matter of letting go of any ideas that make you not that. Or think they do. Some people describe it like remembering. The Self remembering Itself through you.

For many people, awakening is a surprise. It’s completely natural and normal. As we are that, we may be astonished we missed it.

You may have heard all of this before. But sometimes, it can just be a different hearing. I used to equate surrender with blind faith. But one day, I heard it differently…

Then the journey can really begin.
Davidya

February

If you understand that our world arises in consciousness and is projected out then fed back through our senses, many things are much more easily understood. One of the consequences of this model is that our outer world mirrors our inner world. How we perceive the world is how it is. This means that if we study any given pattern in the outer world, we will find it mirroring the inner world.

Thus we can look at patterns of events to understand our inner dynamics. How we are in relationship or work, the results we get fixing or making things, our handwriting, sports skill, and more.

Indeed, we could look at the patterns of traffic or leaves on the ground and obtain insight into our nature. Some people study these sorts of things, like numerologists, phrenologists and astrologers. But it requires a little different skill set than a typical scientist. Because the medium is less concrete, you need the usual research and systematic study, but you also need good subjective skills like intuition to connect the dots.

Because Materialism is dominant in the west, many people approach such subjects more on the basis of belief than research. Newspaper horoscopes are almost meaningless, for example. And it attracts a large share of charlatans or people with inconsistent skills. The result of applying materialist paradigms to fields like astrology is poppycock ideas like beams of energy from the planets. Again, the paradigm is upside down.

When you understand that the world arises from the movement of love within silence, you can begin to see it as patterns of energy reflecting the underlying flow. Everything from the dance of the wind to the music of the stars reflects this same flow. Study the pattern and you begin to see what may yet be hidden. This is what many scientists do. Until recently, astrology was viewed as a science.

In my books, western astrology fails to recognize the precession of the equinoxes making it increasingly imprecise. It’s also cluttered with opinions rather than proofs. Vedic astrology is the opposite, much more accurate and predictive but a little stuck in tradition. The field is in need of a seer to draw them together.

In any case, purely from the standpoint of looking at the flow of energy, February should be an interesting month. From a western perspective:
- the 2nd Saturn Uranus opposition (Virgo Pisces)
- a full moon lunar eclipse in Leo, meaning opposite Sun near Neptune in Aquarius.
- mid-month, the Sun touches Neptune in Aquarius.
- just after that, Mars and Jupiter meet over the North Node or Dragons head, also in Aquarius. The moon, then Mercury cross this point a few days later.
Apparently, Chiron is in there too.

The nodes are markers of what we bring to the table – karma, purpose, etc.

A couple of sites note that the above pattern was heralded in the 1969 (40 years ago) song Aquarius.

When the Moon is in the seventh house
And Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars.

Evidently, this alignment has only happened once before in 1,000 years. In 1962, Mars and Jupiter were conjunct over the south node with the moon in the 7th house. But without all the other stuff. This time, it’s the north node.

One site suggests this combination will nicely happen at dawn on Valentines day over London, but the ephemeris says the 17th. I’m no astrologer so I’ll leave out interpretation and timing.

Of course, the actual dawning of the Age of Aquarius isn’t supposed to be for quite awhile. A few years until the Mayan Calendar completes. Any interpretation of the Yugas also offers other dates. Obviously, the patterns are not currently well understood.

But in any case, February should be a remarkable month. It has certainly started that way.
Davidya

Beyond Happiness

Mature cosmic awakening is typically characterized by freedom from all limitation, deep inner peace, and sustained happiness, all of which overshadow any drama that may remain in the life. Even deep sleep is not a barrier to happiness.

What I continue to be amazed by is that it just keeps ramping up. We get used to a high level of sustained bliss. It becomes normal. Then further opening and clearing occur and a new rapture occurs. A still deeper level of intense happiness emerges.

One that would fry the nervous system of the average bloke, as one teacher wryly observed. So we need to refine, clear and culture it so that is can be supported. Instead of culturing it to support illusions.

Most remarkably though, this is just the beginning. This is the ground on which fullness is built. As I’ve written here before, as the aspects of the person and attachment to the story and sense of separateness fall away, the crust on the heart crumbles and divine love begins to flow forth through us. This movement of love unites all aspects together into a wholeness beyond conception.

The key point here is that all that happiness is a byproduct of the flow of love. A subset, if you will. Divine Love is beyond any value of happiness and will itself overshadow happiness. When divine Love fills us up, it is beyond happiness. It is so much more.

What does one call what is beyond happiness, beyond ecstasy? Perhaps, as suggested on The Raptures, this is another tier of it, the Rapture of Love. It is divine.

Love Is
Davidya

Only Love

Right after I wrote Moving today, I listened to a beautifully complementary talk that was centered on Love.

“Love that is emotional, sentimental, is human love, not pure Divine Love.”
“All creation is born out of Love.”
“Love is the only force there is.”
“Love is invincible. It destroys all negativity.”
“Love molds us… so we can experience what we are, which is pure love.”
“Even the Creator is a product of Love…”

He spoke of how suffering is a yellow light that we have strayed from the flow of love, the direction of nature. Unheeded, it becomes a red light.

This is the importance of learning to hear the voice of the heart, the voice of love.

And then, in the mail came this link.

The music is Pucinni’s O Mio Babbino Caro from the opera Gianni Schicchi. It’s story is that the boyfriends father has died, leaving everything to the monastery. His family thus refuses his marriage without a dowry. The daughter is begging her father to please let the marriage happen, lest she throw herself in the river. Dad makes things right for everyone.

The story of the animation has a different flow, a different enchantment. But each is a story of the flow of love.

The heart sings…

Moving

What moves? What changes? There is only silent awareness, moving within Itself. Appearing as this aspect or that form due to how it is perceived, by the mind we perceive through. It is mind that judges, mind that says it is this or that, good or bad, black or white.

This apparent field of action is an interesting bird. What happens is so very complex. Every word spoken, wing fluttered, thought arising, car turned reverberates off of every other event. Yet at the same time, the rules are simple.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it merely changes form. It also seeks balance. Thus, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. A consequence. But because that consequence comes around to us through the field of action, the form it takes may or may not be as expected. And the time it takes can vary from instantaneous to lifetimes. How far down the table does the ball bounce? Depends on how much we have on the table.

This is the deeper side of ideas like the law of attraction. Putting out what you want will bring it into your life. But the form it takes may be a surprise. As I mentioned in What do You Create?, it has nothing to do with me. It is all about we, what the whole requires.

And this is the clue to getting a sense of it all. While the interactions themselves are hopelessly complex, there is a broader general movement behind the details. But we cannot see this with the personal mind. The personal mind is about judging and differentiating. Good with details but lousy with the big picture. And usually too caught up in it’s story. That thing it tells itself constantly. Can’t hear for all the talking.

To connect with the deeper movement, we have to step out of individual mind. The easiest way to do that is through the heart. With the heart, we can step into the deeper mind, the universal mind. Listen with the heart or feel it. Some call this intuition.

Now you may respond – but heart and mind are quite different! This is very true on the personal level. Personal mind is for differentiating and separating, personal heart is for energizing and joining again. We can even point to the separate places in the body where we think of them as being. But as you go deeper, their relationship changes.

If you step back a little from their focal points, you discover your body is held and supported by a field of emotional energy. Some call this the ‘emotional body’. The emotional field is supported by a mental field. (we can further differentiate layers but that’s not the point here) The personal mind field is supported by a deeper universal mind field and that in turn is supported by an even more inclusive mind. The one mind, we could say. And the one mind is supported by the one heart, the divine.

Thus while the mind may at first seem to hold the heart, it’s really the other way around. Without love, there is no mind.

Some speak of the crown chakra, the connection at the top of the head, as being the doorway to higher awareness and higher levels of existence. This is true. But it’s not the most direct route to source. Within the personal heart is the divine heart, deeper than any value of mind. For many people, this connection is hampered by a crust, fueled by the identity as other.

But as even the crust is That, it’s only an illusory partial covering. Thus, the flow is still there to be heard if we can learn to listen. It only takes a certain amount of surrender. Of releasing ideas of control.

To give you an example from my own life, I’ve recently had an area of life on pause. In the past, I would not have accepted this and would instead have spent a lot of time basically thrashing around trying to make it work. This of course just leads to suffering. Gradually, I’ve learned to listen. And sometimes the message is “wait” or “not yet”. For the ego that wants to be in control, this can be very frustrating. But it’s a great experience in learning to trust what is.

It also becomes obvious what needs to be done in the meantime. In my own life, I’ve made a great deal of progress in other areas and now it becomes clear that that was the necessary preparation for the next stage that is now arising. The message is now changing. And events are clearly corroborating it, shifting from a series of maybes to decide nows.

This process is also much clearer if you understand the cycle of growth and transformation. Disintegration, growth, integration, balance, and repeat.

Certainly, self effort remains important, but applied in a timely manner. There are times in life where we are called to move. And times when we are called to rest or prepare. If you can learn to listen, you will soon begin to hear that ‘still small voice’ get ever louder. When you can hear that, you will see it’s movements in the world around you and events will tend to make a lot more sense. Indeed, your life itself will make a lot more sense.

It’s much easier to be happy with life if we’re not fighting it.
Have fun
Davidya

Joy

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.”
– Rabindranath Tagore