Staying With Our Feelings

 Being in a place of peace may be the goal, but if we want to get there we have to engage in the process of being with ourselves when we are not at peace.

   When we are angry or sad, we usually try to push our feelings away.  Or we try to analyze them, which amounts to the same thing.

   Most of us are looking for the rocket ship trip to heaven.  We want to go from feeling pain to feeling ecstasy without having to change buses.  If that's what the journey is about, why are most of the people making progress on the path buying tokens by the bagful?

   Perhaps they know something we don't.  Perhaps they know it is better to undertake step one in good faith, then to try to leapfrog to step twenty-six on the first attempt.

   It takes courage to stay with what we are feeling.  And it takes a lot of practice before we can learn to do it effectively.

   But what is the alternative?  If we insist on denying or intellectualizing our feelings, we will squander the opportunity they provide us for real transformation.

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