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Stress is not heroic.

The lower self looks for someone else to love it for its own special individuality. That shrunken love will never satisfy us. We will remain lonely and miserable until we give up substituting drama for Love.

Take the drama out of the Drama.  Then the lower self is no longer special.  Our lower selves believe they are so special that their dramas trump everything else, and must be maintained at all costs.  And they prefer this to substance and Love. Homework:  choose one incident, person, environment, or other experience that occasions a drama for you, and …

Yogas chitta-vritti-nirodhah.  Yoga is the inhibition of the vibrations of the field of consciousness. Yoga Sutra 1.2.   This is stilling everything all the way back to the beginning of manifestation. We have to disentangle out of our vehicles and still all vibrations, not just thoughts.   Restrain. Control. Master. Transcend.

If we practice to get into the Heart and then rest there, all our problems will be resolved within us. The outer manifestation will do whatever it is going to do. Inwardly, we will know how to proceed, and will act appropriately.

Following our dharma is the Sacrifice.

Five-Fold-Action——Learn it. God emanates, we project. God maintains and relishes, we obsess. God withdraws and dissolves, we dissociate and destroy. God conceals His true nature from Himself, we delude ourselves. God reveals Himself to Himself, we think we know who we are, we have insight.

Stop looking for your path. You have a path already. Walk it.

Challenges on the outside, such as massive snowstorms, test our internal mettle. These challenges show us where we are internally–or how internal we are. Yoga Sutras 2:18–Objective reality exists for the purpose of experience and liberation.

In our delusion, the Seer appears to be the Seen; then the Seen appears to be the Subject.