There comes a time in everyone’s life when enough is enough!
There is a critical point that every seeker meets. He or she realizes enough is enough. No more excuses about not getting to work on changing one’s life. No more convenient lies to sit with one’s laziness. To agree to what we sense is all wrong. No more going through the same old motions that have not worked, and never will. A new sense of drastic change arises from within. A very individual action. A brand new action emerges where the seeker wonders what this is all about. Saying to oneself, I must settle this once and for all. Like a seed pushing through the soil and meeting the sunlight, a new, unknown life will emerge. A new realization appears that the hour is late, and there is still much to be done.
Recently, a very, very good spiritual friend passed from this world, very suddenly. This event shed light on my own existence and mortality. Specifically, my own death. Questioning my life, “What is important and what is not,” loomed in my mind. Asking myself, have my efforts to find this “something else” that so many authors and so many teachers have mentioned been sincere? An inner inventory must be taken: “What should I keep and what should I toss out?” Toss out everything. Only falseness can be tossed out, anything real can’t be tossed.
Today, I heard a wonderful talk by Vernon Howard where he said, “Everything happens through you, nothing happens from you.” This is a wonderful guide to meet life with all your successes and failures. Why? Because you are neither of these thought reactions. To illustrate, your real self (nature) does not slop around with other humans who love to slop around. Your real essence lives above cause and effect on a plane that is miles above this lowly kind of existence. Even if you can’t presently understand, you can be willing to understand.
Remember and never forget the reason you are seeking these marvelous truths, you know in your heart of hearts, you are not an inward free human being. Simply put, you know you are not free. For example, all your attempts to convince yourself have left you empty and frustrated. Investigating the whole concept of having a separate self brings clarity and the beautiful state of freedom. A freedom you have never known, this is what freedom is, free from everything you were sure was real. This critical point will occur many, many times as you continue to walk out of your insanity; enough is enough. You are recognizing that you have fallen asleep and wish to snap out of it to awaken.
Realizing, I don’t have time for this or that anymore is a great place to be inwardly. I don’t have time for resentments, regrets, negative reactions, etc., even though they still arise within me. Most people don’t know how much poison they allow each day into their lives. I must work at self-developement, it is not going to be given to me. Seeing clearly, I am my only problem is grand, because I can’t change others, but I can change myself.
“Everything happens through you, nothing happens from you.” That is surely one of the most profound things we can ever learn as humans!
Yes, John, The whole planet of people have been wrongly taught that everything happens from us, and so everyone establishes a perfect state of vanity. This is so profound, and can be used daily to reveal so many wrong reactions inside of us. And, of course, observing clearly these wrong reactions sets us free of them. I’m going to title this short quote, “if you truly want to be happy and content place this up front as you go through your day. A true miracle will occur!
As I read the statement “Everything happens through you, nothing happens from you”, I noticed that the mind was interpreting the statement to read “everything happens TO you …” When the statement is read by the mind like that it shows how much I think I am a victim of the world I see. The mind cannot comprehend it is “not real”, it is only thoughts moving through. Over and over again I catch the movement of believing thoughts and let it go.
Yes, just think we have been using our mind as if it is a finely calibrated tool for years and years, and find out it is accurate only sometimes. We have to let it go.
Every time you catch your mind causing you trouble, you are also separating from the strong belief that you are that mind. A huge hoax on planet earth.
Thanks you for this. It makes one sense the urgency of studying the self and gaining cosmic facts, which in turn, work for us. That statement that ‘Everything happens through you, nothing happens from you’ is indeed a revelation. In that case, we must be there to WATCH.
As you say, enough is enough! We really do not know how long we have left of this planet. Why waste any more time?! Let’s get to work on this!
Yes, there must be an urgency to climb or we remain the same.