E179: Stop Struggling to Fix the Outside—Clear the Inside
5/7/202650 min
Suffering is not caused solely by external events, but by the internal impressions we have stored from the past. Spiritual growth comes from letting go of these stored disturbances by relaxing through discomfort instead of trying to control life to match our preferences. True surrender is internal—it is the process of releasing what we hold inside and allowing natural peace, love, and energy to flow..
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Mm-hmm. Jag or the Jam Masters. I think one of the great misunderstandings, and the mind will always misunderstand, about surrender, about acceptance, about spirituality, is that if you surrender, if you tolerate what's going on, you will end up getting what you want. Can I say that again? If you surrender, you struggle inside to try to accept what's going on, that there's this fairness, there's this justice, this grace, that you will be rewarded by getting what you want outside. There's periods in your growth where you will see that, and you will someday find out that you don't need those, you don't even want those. It is the times where you have trouble surrendering, you have trouble accepting, and you try to make it so that you're okay, that you're not growing. 'Cause what you're basically saying is, "I want things to be the way I want them to be. That's the only way I can be okay. And that by