The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer
“What does it feel like to identify more with Spirit than with form? You used to walk around feeling anxiety and tension; now you walk around feeling love. You just feel love for no reason. Your backdrop is love. Your backdrop is openness, beauty, and appreciation. You don’t make yourself feel that way; that is how Spirit feels … You don’t claim to understand what is happening to you; you just know that as you go further and further back, it gets more and more beautiful.”
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer. Where to begin? This quite rapidly has become my new favourite book to gift as a present to friends. Amazing, I highlighted pretty much every page.
Oprah Winfrey put it on her favourite books and wrote the 12 step guide: “1. Realize that you are in there. 2. Realize that you are not okay in there. 3. Realize that you're always trying to be okay. 4. Realize that your mind has taken on the job of figuring out how everything needs to be for you to be okay. 5. Realize that the process of defining how the outside needs to be is not going to make you okay. 6. Learn to not participate in the mind's struggle to be okay. 7. Learn to go about your life just like everyone else, except that nothing you do is for the purpose of trying to be okay. 8. As you sincerely let go of the inner energies you are watching, you begin to feel a deeper energy come in from behind. 9. Your inner experience becomes so beautiful that you fall in love with the energy itself, and you develop a very deep and personal relationship with it. 10. You begin to feel the energy pulling you up into it, and your entire path becomes letting go of yourself in order to merge. 11. Once you get far enough back into the energy, you realize that your personal life can go on without you, leaving you free to become immersed in Spirit. 12. Now you are truly okay, and nothing inside or outside of you can cause disturbance—you have come to peace with it all.“
In short, we need to learn not to resist life, don’t cling onto your likes, don’t resist your dislikes. Just ride the waves life brings and be present.