06-27-2014, 02:57 PM
(06-27-2014, 02:48 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: I'm not sure what's keeping me from realizing it, because I always strive to feel better.
Most people do it to some extent.
But if you are headed from Texas to Arizona, and you keep stopping and then starting, and then go backwards, and then forwards, you end up eternally retreading the same area, and never reach your destination.
The tendency of the ego is to resist change, because change threatens what it perceives to be identity. It doesn't want to die, so it resists the thoughts that would actually bring it what its wanting.