How easy it is to feel like everyone around us is a threat! Those of us who claim to be spiritual, on a "special" path, are especially prone to the foibles of resentment.
What we tend to forget is that now is all there is. No prophesied lighting bolt will hit at such and such a time in the future. Instead, the very people who seem the most irritating - the very ones who seem to interrupt our future enlightenment - warrant our immediate attention. In other words what is current, what look like distractions, are the point; the people in our periphery right now are our saviors and our teachers. I've been fascinated by time travel since I read H.G. Wells and the C.S. Lewis Perelandra series as a teenager. Turns out, the key isn't time travel at all - its now travel.
Now travel reminds me that time and space are a farce. You only have to engage in now travel once to be hooked because travel in the now is so unabashedly real.
The key is do it with purity, the innocence that takes life times to master. It can never be forced. Nothing is valid when it is forced or enforced. What we are looking for is a soft realization, the opening that presents itself all of a sudden. We have to allow the now travel. We have to go to the point beyond expectation - beyond seeing ourselves and interactions with others as wanting.
People get hurt with forcing, jamming, set rules. The most valid concepts in the world go sour, become stale if forced. Instead of purging, we're looking for a soft release. That's when resentment against the angels around us fades, and we recognize who we really are. That's when the magic happens.
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