| s often takes time. The more complex the task, the | | | | moment, and massive change is possible as small |
| higher the success we desire, the longer it takes. This | | | | changes continue over time, but despite the always |
| is not because it is the nature of life to be as | | | | present possibility of imminent relief from our troubles, |
| frustrating as possible. Rather, it is because we have | | | | we are in the habit of perpetuating them. What makes |
| to go through a process of progressively eliminating | | | | positive progress so difficult is that our shortcomings, |
| errors until we arrive at success. While on the surface, | | | | which are so obvious to others, appear to us to be |
| most of these errors may appear to be a result of | | | | almost invisible. We do not see the error of our ways, |
| improper techniques or insufficient information or | | | | but prefer to hold the view that untoward |
| inadequately applied knowledge, the main source of | | | | circumstances have afflicted us. By disclaiming |
| errors lies in our own thinking. It is our incorrect opinions, | | | | responsibility, we alienate ourselves from the positive |
| beliefs, and blind-spots that keep us locked into | | | | action that will lead to a meaningful solution. We are so |
| patterns of self-destruction. If someone aspires to | | | | much in the habit of being ourselves, so used to our |
| wealth, it is not the absence of a profitable enterprise | | | | troubles, that we seldom even entertain the possibility |
| that keeps them impoverished. Rather, it is their thinking. | | | | that a better way is available. In fact, if you look at |
| They first have to overcome their resistance to | | | | your troubles, you will see that year after year, they |
| wealth. They hold in mind antagonistic beliefs about | | | | are always the same cluster. Like hamsters spinning |
| money, work, and opportunity. It is these beliefs that | | | | on a wheel, we don't know how to get off. How, then, |
| keep them in a state of scarcity. And this scarcity then | | | | do we get out of our own way? Before we even |
| reinforces itself as proof of their inadequacy. If | | | | begin to look for a way out, we have to find a way in. |
| someone aspires to health, they hold in mind resistance | | | | We have to look at the situation that is causing us |
| to what it takes to bring the body into a state of | | | | grief and through persistent self-inquiry ascertain what |
| self-repair. If what they are doing to get well is not | | | | we believe about it. This is not an easy task. |
| working, there is an error in their thinking about it. | | | | Sometimes, we have to break through the armor of |
| Similarly, if someone aspires to a good relationship, it is | | | | our own self-justifications by finding someone who is |
| rarely that they cannot find the right person or that the | | | | willing to tell us what is wrong with us. Change is |
| person they are with has all the wrong characteristics. | | | | possible through self-growth and new learning. It |
| It is more often that they project their own repressed | | | | happens only when we reach a point of total |
| hostility on someone else. The result of not expressing | | | | frustration and refuse to put up with our own |
| love is the experience of not being loved and | | | | self-imposed limitations. Only when we make change a |
| appreciated. We are our own worst saboteurs of | | | | must, a dire necessity, can we summon up sufficient |
| success. No one, in fact, does a better job of making | | | | will to break through the logjam in our thinking that has |
| things worse than we do. Change is possible at any | | | | locked us into a wretched situation. |