{"id":356,"date":"2014-07-13T06:24:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/healingandtransformation\/?p=356"},"modified":"2014-07-13T06:24:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:24:35","slug":"we-suffer-when-we-try-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/healingandtransformation\/2014\/07\/we-suffer-when-we-try-too-hard.html","title":{"rendered":"We Suffer When We Try Too Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/370\/2014\/07\/river-of-love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-359\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/370\/2014\/07\/river-of-love.jpg\" alt=\"river of love\" width=\"450\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a>Desire is not wrong in itself. If we desire something, it is a yearning that informs us about ourselves and our choices. It can ignite something within us\u00a0to be activated, lived and experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, patience in itself can be empowering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We suffer when we try too hard.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Life cannot be forced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We often experience a gap between what our <strong>head<\/strong> is telling us, and what our <strong>heart<\/strong> says. Most often, the\u00a0more we follow our heads, the more we suffer.<\/p>\n<p>The degree to which we can let go of needing to know how, is the degree to which we are able to liberate ourselves to &#8220;let go and let God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c\u2026I\u2019ve come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call \u201cThe Physics of The Quest\u201d \u2013 a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this:\u00a0<strong>\u201cIf you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting<\/strong>\u00a0(which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments)\u00a0<strong>and set out on a truth-seeking journey<\/strong>\u00a0(either externally or internally),\u00a0<strong>and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 most of all \u2013\u00a0<strong>to face<\/strong>\u00a0(and forgive)\u00a0<strong>some very difficult realities about yourself\u2026.then truth will not be withheld from you<\/strong>.\u201d Or so I\u2019ve come to believe.\u201d<br \/>\n~\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just for today &#8211; Follow your heart &#8211; and go with the flow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #610b4b\">What do you think? Feel free to comment down below!<br style=\"color: #610b4b\" \/><em>You are awesome as you are, and I love you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #610b4b\">And if you love me back, please click \u2018share\u2019 up at the top!<br \/>\n<br style=\"color: #610b4b\" \/><strong>David G. Arenson ND<\/strong>, Australia&#8217;s Leading\u00a0Soul-Coach, Keynote Speaker and Healer<br \/>\nFind out more about me:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findshambhala.com\">http:\/\/www.findshambhala.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inquire about arranging a retreat:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mretreat.com\">http:\/\/www.mretreat.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desire is not wrong in itself. If we desire something, it is a yearning that informs us about ourselves and our choices. It can ignite something within us\u00a0to be activated, lived and experienced. 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