Pleasure Coexists with Pain

The Choice to be here is a heroic one. I cannot help but appreciate those who have embodied. Just being here is an act of love.

I'm Here!

Some choice & timely words from my dear teacher Saniel

Great Relief, Secret #2, "It's Really Hard to Be Here, Isn't It?":

In the mass media's fascination with super-successful, powerful, beautiful, wealthy, talented people, and in so much of the conditioning we receive from parents, religious teachings, spiritual guides, and philosophies, there's a potent, if often only implicit, but practically universal suggestion that contradicts this secret:

It goes like this: "If you're really doing life right, why, hey, it should be easy to be here! And if you're not cool, if you don't have your act together, if being here is not a piece of cake for you ... well, you must not have much of a clue what it's all about!"

That propagandistic suggestion hangs on our chests and our shoulders like an invisible vat of concrete. This book offers a small and perhaps aggravating proposition to the contrary. ... Scratch their surface a tiny bit, and you see that even those "really-together" people either already know or sooner or later discover a secret that's so obvious and so painful it escapes our view for most of a lifetime:

It's really hard to be here.

For every body.

Period.

If any body hasn't already been numbed and stung by setbacks, still, every single human body knows or fears they're coming.

And sooner or later, to date, every single body loses the fight and is no longer here.

Why?

Not because it, that bodily person, wanted to die. Not really.

No, just simply because it finally got too hard to be here.

Take a deep breath, let that recognition loosen up the cramps in your body, mind, and heart, and a curious release takes place. It can stick with you if you let it. And that's, among other things, a different kind of "Secret" than the one currently getting lots of press...definitely no less true. Maybe a whole lot more so.