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Our struggle to find ourselves is blessed. Then another part of us may ask, If we’re so blessed, why doesn’t God end this struggle?
It may help if we better understand the struggle.
This state we’re in—the state of human existence—is a problem. For we are in an in-between state. We’ve woken up from a lower state—a plant or animal where we were in harmony, but not with awareness. And we haven’t yet reached that higher state—the proverbial mountaintop—where we will be in harmony with awareness.
Where are we now?
Somewhere in the middle—in the upward struggle.
And it’s a struggle for everyone, whether we know we are on a spiritual path or not.
What makes us suffer
Suffering is what we produce in the struggle between the spirit world of truth and the material world, or matter.
What makes us suffer is untruth.
Another word for untruth is unawareness. Matter results from unawareness.
When we attempt to master our life by mastering matter, what we are really hoping for is mastery over untruth.
This is not only true for life in general.
It exists in each one of us.
It’s in the makeup of our being that led to us become matter.
So where must we search for untruth?
In ourselves.
When we are not in truth, we are not in reality. So our work is to find our own unique brand of unreality buried in our wrong conclusions, unnecessary defenses and evasions.
That’s how we must go about finding the core of our being.
Eventually, we’ll start living from our core rather than from our erroneous thinking. It is then—when we act and react from our core—that we can reach and affect the core of others.
It won’t matter if they know they are on a path or not.
Along the way, one challenge we must face is that we believe our own stories. This is such a habit that we don’t even see we’re doing it.
And so we search in vain.
Maybe we see how we have become destructive. Or where we are inauthentic. But this does not stop us from continuing this way.
We still have no real sense of our real selves.
This is the struggle—to come out of the distorted ways we see the world. To change, to grow, and to become happy—living fruitful, rich lives.
To do that, we have to become whole again.
We must become undivided.
Our Real Self is one whole nugget, waiting for us to find it. It is logical that we must climb this mountain, if we want what’s at the top. Paradoxically, that is where we’ll find our Real Self—at our core.
Listen and learn more.
Finding Gold, Chapter 5: Self-Alienation and the Way Back to the Real Self
Read Original Pathwork® Lecture: #95 Self-Alienation and the Way Back to the Real Self
