Much More Helpful than Success

 You can be free from the prison of your mind...

A great opportunity arises when the world of form or when the person who identifies with the world of form becomes dissatisfied...

Psychological suffering, that is mind produced, is the only type of suffering...implying there is a mind made sense of self that is not surrendered to life

Spiritually, failure is much more helpful than success.

Eckhart Tolle 

I hear that again and again through my learning.  I believe it too. Yet, I still find myself being pulled into the challenges Life provides and when I become dissatified...instead of embracing the opportunity...I will still hear myself saying from time to time.."Oh no! What next? Why me?" I know better but habit mind is challenging to pull away from.

Hmm! When I catch myself slipping from my practice committment, as I still do, to embrace life exactly as it is...I need to be kind and compassionate to this self. Slips happen in recovery.  They too can be the "failures" that feed the spirit. They show this human I call "me" that my mind is not completely surrendered yet.  There is the part I created ( psyche, ego, this sense of a seperate little "me") that is still clinging...and I must let go of that part as well.

It is all learning isn't it?

All is well.

Eckhart Tolle ( February 11, 2025) Eckhart Tolle on Freeing Yourself from the Source of Suffering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqr26J7L7XU