Isn’t It Amazing?

Regret boils down to a single thought.

If I didn’t do that, then this wouldn’t be happening.

The “this” is something causing you heartache, turmoil, limitation, pain, and/or suffering. It hurts twice as much because, according to your formulation, the scenario could have been avoided with a different choice — one that seems painfully obvious now.

There is a huge assumption lingering in the background – that you know what’s best for you.

Most of us think that an abundant money supply and an effortless life lived on a beach house with loved ones is what’s best. Maybe not literally, but the essence of the picture pulls.

If we chose what we think is best for us at all times, we would not feel any discomfort. We would not face any adversity, and we certainly would never be challenged.

In short: we would never grow.

There are those who are initiated on to the path of truth, understanding, and love and there are those who prefer to be comfortable — or, those who wish to obliterate the status quo and those who wish to maintain it, fearing the repercussions of such a change.

The initiate has signed up for a life of near chronic struggle because it is through that struggle that he or she learns the way of truth, love, and understanding. These keys cannot be acquired sipping piña coladas on the beach.

They are acquired through dark nights of the soul, through hopelessness, and by being brought right to the edge of conventional safety and security.

In such moments, we are forced to surrender our personal sense of self and so open ourselves up to the mystery and magic of consciousness that is lurking behind the scenes at all times.

What is best for you, by definition, is what is happening now because there is no other way it can be happening — for now, at least.

That “that” that brought you “this” was no mistake or accident. It was an intervention from beyond to bring you the exact thing you came here to experience and learn.

Isn’t it amazing?