As we go through our life journeys at some point we may notice that there is something within us that is holding us back, putting us down or making us feel bad. It is only within that any of these things can actually affect us and it is only us that can give them permission to do so.
One of my favorite twin flame pairs was Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Mother describes dark forces as follows:
"Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable; you have to take them as tests on the way and go courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity for the existence of hostile forces. They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer.
It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly legitimate. If nothing in you responded, if they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would retire and leave you."
Does this mean that if we don't respond to war we don't engage in one? If we don't accept someone elses insult as our own thought within us we are unscathed? If we don't accept someone elses definition of us we are not likened to fashion ourselves that way?
I believe it means all of these things. I believe it is us and only us that give ourselves permission to accept our life circumstances. We may think we are victims for a time, but when we truly realize it is us and only us that gives another permission to treat us a certain way, talk to us a certain way or make us feel a certain way, it is up to us to disengage what ever it is within us that makes us continue the cycle. It is there that your freedom will be won and the powerful being you truly are will begin to awaken.
One of my favorite twin flame pairs was Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Mother describes dark forces as follows:
"Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable; you have to take them as tests on the way and go courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity for the existence of hostile forces. They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer.
It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly legitimate. If nothing in you responded, if they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would retire and leave you."
Does this mean that if we don't respond to war we don't engage in one? If we don't accept someone elses insult as our own thought within us we are unscathed? If we don't accept someone elses definition of us we are not likened to fashion ourselves that way?
I believe it means all of these things. I believe it is us and only us that give ourselves permission to accept our life circumstances. We may think we are victims for a time, but when we truly realize it is us and only us that gives another permission to treat us a certain way, talk to us a certain way or make us feel a certain way, it is up to us to disengage what ever it is within us that makes us continue the cycle. It is there that your freedom will be won and the powerful being you truly are will begin to awaken.
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