{"id":244,"date":"2011-03-24T06:55:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T06:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=244"},"modified":"2011-03-22T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T23:03:22","slug":"nothing-can-stop-you-from-starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2011\/03\/nothing-can-stop-you-from-starting-over.html","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Can Stop You From Starting Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can be new now, if we&#8217;re first fed up inwardly with our old, false nature; and secondly if we&#8217;re willing to really let go of this nature as we understand what that means. That&#8217;s what our higher studies are for: to grow in greater and greater understanding that leads up to a whole new and now nature.<\/p>\n<p>In short, we need to wake up. You can do it right now. Just be quietly aware of yourself &#8212; without thinking about it. This kind of awareness suspends habitual, self-referencing thought, and in that momentary absence of the mechanical thought nature, we touch another life: one whose nature is the same as &#8220;starting over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that nothing in life can stop you from starting your life all over, at anytime, because the true fabric of life is a cosmic weave of ceaseless beginnings. That&#8217;s right. Your power for starting over is backed up by Reality itself, which will place its supreme strength on the side of whoever chooses it over self-ruinous states. All that is needed to put the power of this ever-renewing truth to work in your life is for you to consciously agree to view any unwanted or unhappy moment <em>not<\/em> as some unavoidable ending, but as the temporary and passing condition that it really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can be new now, if we&#8217;re first fed up inwardly with our old, false nature; and secondly if we&#8217;re willing to really let go of this nature as we understand what that means. 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