I don’t intend to convince you

When you tell me about your problems, worries, and difficulties, I try to listen to you carefully. Even if you don’t realize it, they are the result of your decisions, some conscious, and many others unconscious. 

Your ego, which, deep down, is also mine, since all minds are united, relies on your unshakable beliefs to keep you on the path that leads to suffering. Or at best, to momentary pleasure, which soon evaporates.

You insist on playing the role of victim in your work, family, and relationships. When in reality, deep down, it is you who have chosen the environment and circumstances in which you live.

You believe you can’t do anything, that you have no options, when you’ve already chosen, without knowing it, the path of the ego that leads you to judge and criticize.  You think that what happens to you comes from outside and that you are merely a poor victim of circumstances.

It is the ego itself that prevents you from looking within, where the answer lies, on the dial of consciousness where you choose one of two possible paths: that of Love or that of the ego. And it is precisely there that your only freedom lies, in the path you choose.

Once you set out on the chosen path, it will be very difficult for you to renounce its consequences. That is why, when you unknowingly choose the path of the ego, as happens most of the time, you believe that all you can do is complain. You are unaware that, whenever you want, you can return to square one, to the crossroads, and choose the path of Love once again.

I keep listening to your whiny, tiresome rant, which only drags you deeper into the bottomless pit of negativity.

I could try to explain to you that there’s another way of looking at things. But I’m afraid your ego will shut me out, and it’s even possible that my thoughts will provoke your rejection. It would be like trying to explain to someone from the 16th century, when electricity hadn’t even been discovered yet, how the Internet works as a global village. I’m sure the look of astonishment and disbelief on their face would be a sight to behold.

That’s why I don’t intend to convince you of another way of looking at life. I respect your current state of inner maturity, wherever you are right now, because we’ve all been there.

When the day comes that you’re fed up with suffering, that you can’t take it anymore, you’ll inevitably become more receptive, and only then will you desperately seek answers to your vital questions. You’ll realize that your essence has always been ready to accompany you on the path to inner peace.

The ball doesn’t bounce until it hits the ground. Your inner change will come when you’re ready to see life differently, not before.