Chrisjoel

Life has put you in a situation, and life asks you to execute the situation in which life put you. But there is no doer; don’t take yourself for a doer. The most important thing for you when you go back home is that you look, not from the personal point of view, not from the psychological point of view, but look at your situation objectively as the scientist looks. If you do this, if you look at the facts as facts, you will see that there is no burden at all. Then there will be simply doing, acting, living, but no doer, no one who lives.

“Just imagine for a moment that this isn’t true. Even though you may believe that it’s true, just imagine for a moment: what would it be like if you didn’t need to struggle, if you didn’t need to make an effort to find peace and happiness? What would that feel like now? And just take a moment to be quiet and see if peace or stillness is with you in this moment.”

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That’s crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don’t have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you. No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That’s why you’re in the mess that you’re in right now. That is why you’re asleep. They never told you this. But it’s self-evident.