conflict within ourselves ceases when there is no longer any clash between the demands and expectations
Most people are in love with their particular life drama.
Their story is their identity.
The ego runs their life.
Most people have their whole sense of self invested in the ego.
Even the search for truth, or an answer, a solution, or for healing become part of it.
What the ego fears and resists most is the end of its drama.
When we live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in our lives.
Ego is the unobserved mind that runs your life when you are not present to this moment. When you are not present as the witnessing consciousness, the watcher.
Whenever we are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, we are creating drama. Drama around fear of the future, which hasn’t happened yet. Drama around regret and shame over the past.
When we live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in our lives.
The ego perceives itself as a separate fragment in a hostile universe, with no real inner connection to any other being,
Whenever two or more egos come together, drama of one kind or another ensues.
But when you are conscious, nobody can even have an argument with you, no matter how hard he or she tries. You cannot have an argument with a fully conscious person.
An argument implies identification with your mind and a mental position, as well as resistance and reaction to the other person’s position. The result is that the polar opposites become mutually energized. These are the mechanics of unconsciousness.
You can still make your point clearly and firmly, but there will be no reactive force behind it, no defense or attack. So it won’t turn into drama. When you are fully conscious, you cease to be in conflict.
A course in miracles tells us that “No one who is at one with himself can even conceive of conflict,”
This refers not only to conflict with other people but more fundamentally to conflict within ourselves, which ceases when there is no longer any clash between the demands and expectations of our minds and what is.
When we live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in our lives.
(Material adapted from “The Power of Now” Eckhart Tolle
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