What do you do
when you are the problem,
in your life?
When your greatest obstacle
is clearly
yourself…
How do you manage
not to give up
When what you are fighting most is you?
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A Soul's Walk 
Eventually you win yourself over…but our lizard brains can be very stubborn for a time…
I don’t know about that winning yourself over… but hey, could be great.
This was me for decades–it was so frustrating, as I was powerless to change. So I hung on to the wisp of faith in God I possessed, and resolved to just hunker down for the duration and wait for the “end”. And then the miracle happened just before Easter 2011–talk about “worth the wait”!
That sounds wonderful… not the waiting part, obviously.
You realize the fight is the fight that if you continue you will always be the opposite of yourself. you surrender to it, notice I used it as the word of choice. Self conflict is not you but the mind in you that has control over you when you face that head on, you are now witnessing it then you surrender to it being the observing witness of your mind! You have no interest in conflict; your mind does! It is how it controls you, repeats patterns of the past, dooms your outlook to the future! You have no interest in either and in this moment something in you sees choice! Surrender to your thoughts about any of it. Witness it with no judgement, witness with no regret and forgiveness of self for allowing the mind noise that much weight within your existence. For in your conscious you become more awake to the love concealed within it! It heals in your embracing, not your removal of it! For just witnessing this as the mind controlled substance of receptive thought pattern you are more aware and of pure resolve. Hence you win your soul to become more present by witnessing your minds dominant pattern to keep you non aware of what matters most! This moment!!!!!! There is much missing in this moment and your mind has no value to bring when it is there. Something more does!
Plantinga I can understand. Wittgenstein I can get things from. Neitzsche I can learn from and argue with. This, however… I have nothing. I don’t know what this means. I do have to say thank you though for taking so much time to leave a comment. Many things go over my head. My apologies for being a wasted audience. Perhaps one day I will look back and a light bulb will go off… until then, have a wonderful day. Cheers.
My friend you are not a wasted audience sometimes it takes a message to resonate before it becomes clear! In this case it was more of a place of pointing to you inside you! Have a wonderful day as well my friend! Enjoy your moments completely! CK
You have to learn to love yourself.
Actually unlearn as it doesn’t require your teaching to love it requires your knowing! Inside you knows this deeply rooted within you. You are born with it and die with it and then you experience it in between! 😉
That much is clear. Jesus said, “love your neighbor as yourself.” This tells me that He presupposed that I would love myself. Obviously I need to love myself if I am really going to be able to effectively love others. And we have so much to learn, don’t we? You have made a very appropriate and relevant point. Thank you Esther. Cheers.
we are our own worst enemy at times..
So true, so true…
sometimes we think too much and too deeply? agree?
Nope. But sometimes I know we fail to act on what we have thought about.
true.. we don’t listen to the truth
I smack myself upside the head & it hurts. But – worth it in the long run…
(chuckle)
You forgive yourself for whatever it is bothering you, pray, and try (though it’s hard indeed) to let God be in control…. do something nice for at least one person each day, try to make a positive difference in someone’s life. (You probably do all these things or weren’t really asking… just my thoughts.
I’m always glad to have your thoughts.
I simply do not know. Tell me when you figure it out?
Well… OK.
I second MissFourEyes…do enlighten us when you come upon a possible answer/solution/way of life…for now I can only say breathe and believe…
I’ll be sure to let you know if I find an answer.
sometimes it is not us that is the problem, but the way in which we see the world.
The way in which we see the world is fundamental to “us.” So if the way you see the world is the problem… you still are the problem.