Because it can be such a despairing feeling to go within and not find what we need, rather than tolerate the emptiness we race headlong into the acquisition of more of what we think will fill us.
When we live suspended amidst the promise of fulfillment, we see the solution to emptiness as adding and subtracting outside experiences.
Each time we leave a job or a relationship, the parts of ourselves that we left unresolved are still within us.
Until we resolve them, all we are doing is creating more complication in our lives.
This keeps us busy with the illusion that we are working on our problems, which only too often are not the problem at all. The problem is generally within ourselves.
Until we are willing to look for it there, all the switching and changing in the world won't give us what we need.
Have the strength to be still.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. ~ Gertrude Stein
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