RE: From a slave to a master chapter # 59 - The force of love and its all-encompassing expressions
We hold onto our ideas, perceived ideals and self identity - sometimes so tightly, in ways that might look like certain conviction, or images / material things that represent "who I am".
So tightly, (or comfortably?) that disruption of some kind is attracted like the polar opposite side of another magnet to come barreling in to break up the knot.
That does not describe every unexpected or unwanted course of events but this is what came to mind after reading this. Unfortunately, people do not always know how to / or than they do not have to.... now identify themselves with the other end of polarity, or the destruction experienced and it's aftermath, which might largely be forming to fit the mold that a person has created and sustains with their own energy.
Holding on loosely is a difficult concept for many of us I think and that might be the reason behind alot of suffering.
Indeed.
From what I have seen in people, it's the X factor. Meaning, they are afraid of losing their identity. I can understand that. For, a middle-aged wo/man, being told repeatedly that they could change their life if only they changed their perspective, a bit, still refuse to.
So, they do know what to do (they are being told by many, including you and me), yet they fear the consequences.
I am thinking now to myself, reading your comment and writing my reply, that I should emphasize more that on the path to Realization one does not negate the human personality or destroys it. They only allow broader consciousness to come in, to be next to the human. The human experiences, the master collects wisdom, in a feast of life.