The meaningful path through life feels like the acceptance of difficulty. Or, said another way, consciously and willingly suffering (my definition of "love", btw) is the same experience as cultivating meaning. A life full of meaning, once experienced, liberates an individual because they can then look back on their life and see the illusion for what it is. Not to mention look forward to more suffering (I know, right?), because suffering is not bad. Denying experiences is closer to "bad" or "evil" than anything else. Why? Because of the lack of trust. As a culture - and ironically enough given the amount of trust we put in electricity, telephone poles, Amazon and algorithms - is a mistrusting culture. We lack trust. Symptoms of a lack of trust are eerily similar to symptoms of an addiction - over-eating, over-sleeping, over-buying, repeated frustrations, violence, etc. Trust is not easy to cultivate, don't get me wrong. But nothing will ever change until we do. If your life is not the way you wish it to be, the responsibility is on you to change it. That means you need to start to trust something other than what you have been trusting. That's why self-reflection is soooo important. Not only does it foster trust in ourselves, but it also shows us our weaknesses, which can help us develop a trust in something outside of ourselves.

I totally trust that you have everything you need inside of yourself. I encourage you to trust yourself to grow in an authentic way.

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