What ifitisasituationthatIcandosomethingabout?How
canIallowittobeandchangeitatthesametime?
Do what you have to do. In the meantime, accept what is.
Since mind and resistance are synonymous, acceptance
immediately frees you from mind dominance and thus
reconnects you with Being. As a result, the usual ego
motivationsfor"doing"—fear,greed,control,defendingor
feeding the false sense of self— will cease to operate. An
intelligence much greater than the mind is now in charge,
and so a different quality of consciousness will flow into
yourdoing.
"Acceptwhatevercomestoyouwoveninthepatternof
yourdestiny,forwhatcouldmoreaptlyfityourneeds?"This
was written 2 , 000 years ago by Marcus Aurelius, one of
those exceedingly rare humans who possessed worldly
poweraswellaswisdom.
It seems that most people need to experience a great
deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and
accept—beforetheywillforgive.Assoonastheydo,oneof
the greatest miracles happens: the awakening of Being-
consciousness through what appears as evil, the
transmutation of suffering into inner peace. The ultimate
effectofall theevilandsufferinginthe worldis that it will
forcehumans intorealizing whotheyare beyondname and
form. Thus, what we perceive as evil from our limited
perspective is actually part of the higher good that has no
opposite. This, however, does not become true for you
except through forgiveness.Until that happens, evil has not
beenredeemedandthereforeremainsevil.
Through forgiveness, which essentially means
recognizing the insubstantialityof the past and allowingthe
present moment to beas it is, the miracle oftransformation
happens not only within but also without. Asilent space of
intensepresencearisesbothinyouandaroundyou.Whoever
or whatever enters that field of consciousness will be
affected by it, sometimes visibly and immediately,