How would you feel if you learned today, that the life you are living right now is the best that it will ever get?
Can you accept the possibilty that you may never improve yourself further than where you are now, that you will never have more things or more money and you will never have more love.
Really think about this. It will tell you where you are.
If the idea is ghastly, makes you feel sick and sends you into a quivering state of shock then you have work to do.
If you can get behind the idea, even if it would be slightly disappointing, then you may be more enlightened than you think you are.
The wider the gap between who we are and what we have, compared to who we want to be and what we want, the more rope we have whip ourselves with.
There is part of us called the ego ideal. It is from Freud, but essentially it is the part of us who demands we should be a certain way. We should be richer, funnier, wiser, smarter etc. It goes on.
It is a picture of who we feel we should be and the further away we are from it the more guilt and shame we have about who we are.
I see correlations between this and those people who will stop at nothing to get what they want. The ones who are only happy if they are the best at everything. The highly competitive…
