The Trouble with Expectations
We all anticipate certain outcomes, expect certain things from people or events in life. Expectations are troublesome. Find in this short poem, what expectations are keeping you from.
We all anticipate certain outcomes, expect certain things from people or events in life. Expectations are troublesome. Find in this short poem, what expectations are keeping you from.
Your experience of life is rooted in the individual, the separate person that you think you are. But there is more to life than your experience as an individual. Come find through a wonderful story plus a short poem.
Many people think that surrender is a sign of weakness, that it implies giving up. The surrender we speak of here, cannot be more different than this misunderstanding. This little poem reveals the essential difference between surrender (in spiritual terms) and giving up.
What is peace? Is it something you can attain after achieving something or another in your life? Find in this short poem, the profound nature of peace.
What is here? What is really here? Is it a world with ever-changing experiences that you experience through a limited form? This poem points the way to Reality.
What is the interplay between desire or intention, manifestation and surrender? Find in this short poem.
How is your time spent? In the moment, is it in fuming about the past, or fearing the future? In grabbing and possessing, or in opening and giving? You have a limited amount of time here. Is your time spent wisely?
Everything changes. Thoughts and feelings do. People and circumstances do. Things do. Yet, the mind clings to this and that, putting us in opposition to life’s flow. Can you get to the root cause of this?
We expect things to happen the way we want them to. We hope that things happen the way we desire. But life’s flow doesn’t always result in the fulfillment of the expectations or hope. Often, the programmed reaction we have to life situations, as a result, is resistance. “This should not be happening.” Tiring, weary, useless reaction to life. How to let go of resistance? Find out in this article.