Resisting What Is

Your mind has decided what you want to be happening, and what you don’t want to be happening, and that’s what you’re having a problem with.

The cause of suffering is that you have a way you want it to be… and now you suffer when it’s not that way, don’t you? You decided, “I don’t want it to be a certain way.” Then you suffer, when it is that way. I want it to be a certain way. It doesn’t be that way. You suffer……Because you have made up in your mind how you want the moment in front of you – and by the way, the moment that hasn’t happened yet and the one that already happened – how you want them to be. Because you did that with your mind, you are suffering.

Here’s how I define suffering. If you have to be doing anything about it to try and be OK, it means you’re suffering.

Michael Singer, from Every Day Gets Lighter When You Let Go of Yourself

Source: Karl Duffy on Mindfulbalance.org