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The Gap Called Despair

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 2:47
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gap-1-990x556by Soren Dreier

2016 has been very challenging for a lot of spiritually engaged people.

Some seem to have fallen into a gap that to them is quite unfamiliar. We all experiences gaps, in the journey ‘back home’. Back Home, as in the place we dwell when we feel our life has a meaning to it and we seem to know why and what we are here for. We cannot bypass these gaps simply because, as goes for a lot of issues, what we bypass – we do not walk through or confront.
Everything we bypass in this life, is still there for the next time around.

It is a very internal dynamic but is also obviously mirrored in our external life, the way we interact with this world.

There is a slight difference in the dynamics and it is a very important difference: There are some things, circumstances and people we do not need to confront or face because we are aware of the emotional hooks and in that awareness we do not get sucked in via the emotions. For example, if somebody wants to be aggressive with us we do not necessarily need to take the bait, since every time we give into that we get caught up in the dramas and control. They need a punching bag and we are, on the road home, very welcome to leave it be, turn away, or just address it without putting emotions into it.

When you become really good at this, they will start to label you as controlling or arrogant. Are you?

But, there seems to be one person we cannot turn away from, and that would be oneself. If we´re ever haunted by somebody, we are haunted by ourselves. What we bypass on the road to redemption will be fragments, themes, unfulfilled desires, karma; things that seem to be hidden very well in the burden basket we tend to call the signature of our ego’s struggling in and with this world.

We can escape most – but not what hides within, and what many thought they could suppress via  the ‘right’ spiritual approach, often formulated by someone else.
What is formulated by someone else can be good advice, but in order to integrate it we have to live it. Learning by doing is often not the same as learning by mirroring.

Our little eyes have seen a lot, and our little ears have heard a lot and our little soul is trying to contain it, transform it, walk through it, in order to cast it away for good. I strongly believe that in these years of ordeal for so many, our little souls have grown.

People are asking me now, while they are staring down the gap: Why am I here? What’s my mission in this life?

Here is the Secret of the Gap:

The gap is constructed by ambition.

And there’s nothing wrong with ambition.

Ambition is but a toning of desire and all in this world is desire driven.

I often say that spirituality is not a competitive sport, and people agree, but they do not look into their ambitions and are still very competitive in a field that not compatible with competition. Funny ei?

So, that gap of despair, which makes people so unhappy that they actually say to me that they do not want to spend one second more on this planet is constructed by: Your spiritual ambition combined with the state of the world that you inhabit. That can either be your private world and its qualities, or its perceived lack of qualities.

If that is your reality, use 2017 to roll up them sleeves and fix it. Just fix it.

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