When a person feels their aliveness — which is part of the process of uncovering living purpose — they encounter their resistance to feeling alive they have felt and compiled over their lifetime. Uncovering one’s living purpose is very hard because people make it hard. People resist life. They squirm against life.
For some spiritual seekers, it seems that enlightenment is about some spiritual orgasm, an euphoric bliss, which is a romantic view but not what seems to happen. I’d rather call what happens ENDARKENMENT. Endarkenment is the end to the pursuit of the spiritual orgasm, accepting the darkness of reality — a void without lies. In this place, possibility is vast and magical.
A go-with-the-flow attitude often is really a resistance to LIFE ITSELF, along with a lack of owning the resistance. A true and healthy go-with-the-flow is about claiming our truths.
We as a whole — society and the personal development field — are mistaken. We believe that something is wrong with us. What is more accurate and vastly more helpful is that we resist all that is right within us …