In Spiritual Maturity, The Opposite

There Is One Thing In Life That You Can Always Rely On: Life Being As It Is.

We Tend To Run Our Whole Life Trying To Avoid All That Hurts Or Displeases Us, Noticing The Objects, People, Or Situations That We Think Will Give Us Pain Or Pleasure, Avoiding One And Pursuing The Other.

Awareness Is Our True Self; It's What We Are. So We Don't Have To Try To Develop Awareness; We Simply Need To Notice How We Block Awareness With Our Thoughts, Our Fantasies, Our Opinions, And Our Judgments. We're Either In Awareness, Which Is Our Natural State, Or We're Doing Something Else.

Caught In The Self-centered Dream, Only Suffering; Holding To Self-centered Thoughts, Exactly The Dream; Each Moment, Life As It Is, The Only Teacher; Being Just This Moment, Compassion's Way.

Trust In Things Being As They Are Is The Secret Of Life. But We Don't Want To Hear That. I Can Absolutely Trust That In The Next Year My Life Is Going To Be Changed, Different, Yet Always Just The Way It Is.