History in the Making: Participant or Bystander?

Those who have a deep spiritual practice can’t help counting all the contents of life as a blessing. Sometimes a particular appearance in our body of affairs seems to contradict any semblance to being our ‘highest destiny’ – at least by our personal sense of ego. We want to push the experience away and feel for it anything but gratitude. We want to escape our present moment experience so we go shopping, turn on the TV, call a friend – anything to avoid the unpleasant. Life as a teacher can sometimes be sharp, uncomfortable, awkwardly embarrassing to the ego’s concept of itself. Life is equally tender, encouraging, unconditionally loving, and exhibits a great sense of humor.

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