"nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know
…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there
is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from
being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way
reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we
find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught
us what we need to know. if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other
end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find
the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. it just keeps
returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever
it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality,
how we are pulling back ins
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