Dropping the Struggle | Free Book
Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have
Is it possible to fully accept, even love, the life you have? Is it
possible to drop the struggle to make yourself and your life
different? Acclaimed teacher and bestselling author Roger Housden says
yes in this profound alternative to nonstop striving and
self-criticism. Whether about our relationships, careers, or
spirituality, many of us judge ourselves as not measuring up. But
fulfillment comes when we stop struggling and learn to trust the
wisdom of what life presents us with.Housden wrote
Dropping the Struggle as someone who, up until a few years ago,
spent much of his time in a covert struggle with life. Despite his
success, he often felt that something was missing. He struggled for
years with an ongoing spiritual longing, with questions of meaning and
purpose, with the search for love, with all the usual difficulties of
being human, until he finally realized — though not with his thinking
mind — that the only thing life was asking of him was to rest in a
deeper knowing that was always there, usually silently, behind the
arguments and strategies that would so commonly occupy his conscious
self.“Struggle will never get us the things we want most,” Housden
writes, “love; meaning; presence; freedom from anxiety over the past
and future; contentment with ourselves exactly as we are,
imperfections and all; the acceptance of our mortality — because these
things lie outside the ego’s domain. For these, we need another way.
That way begins and ends in surrender, in letting go of our resistance
to life as it presents itself.”
- Title: Dropping the Struggle | Free Book
- Author: Steven
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