How are you living your life?
Around or within?
You live around when you depend on the circumstances, on what surrounds you: climatic, material, social, political, relational conditions, what others do and say and above all your physical body.
Circumstances constantly change, at times they give you gifts, then they take them away. At times there is peace, power, joy, then conflict, pain, weakness follows. At times your physical body is in good shape, then it is not.
When you were born in this world you identified yourself with a physical body, a family, culture, race, profession, social role, ideology, religion and many other circumstances.
Then at some point you probably began to realize that there is another identity, something within that lives beyond circumstances. That part is the only reality, security, source of power, while everything else is illusory, provisional. When you understand this then you start living within.
You live within when you are intimately creative, when you realize that your purpose in life is to give birth to and bring up your
MULTIDIMENSIONAL SELF, your CENTER.
The circumstances accompany you in this process, they surround you, but they cannot support you. Their purpose is to act as a contrast. Just as emptiness allows you to identify the objects and bodies you see, the circumstances serve to highlight your Center. But if instead of recognizing the Center, you continue to pay attention to the circumstances, then there will only be circumstances.
I regret to point this out, but the circumstances of your life, although they may improve sometimes, they are destined to worsen with absolute certainty. You can ignore it, but at some point this will happen. All circumstances will degenerate, including your physical body.
The pressure of circumstances and their alternation is useful when it allows you to awaken from within your true SELF, your CENTER.
Every day, when you feel the pressure of circumstances, immediately bring your attention to the Center, make sure it is fully awake, and let it express, live, be.
NEVER allow circumstances to determine who you are.
Learn to live within day by day.
Start immediately. Give space to who you are inside now, without depending on any circumstances. Let your CENTER express and know that the most favorable moment to do so is when the circumstances are worse.
The time will come when the circumstances will be the worst possible ones, and that will be the decisive moment.
So use any situation a little less worse to train yourself to live within. Start immediately.