{"id":5364,"date":"2017-05-24T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2017-05-18T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T16:56:19","slug":"invitation-outgrow-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2017\/05\/invitation-outgrow-limitations.html","title":{"rendered":"An Invitation to Outgrow Your Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed how the more negative you get, the more difficult everything about your life becomes, including being able to do the simplest things? It\u2019s like suddenly sinking into dark molasses, where not only can\u2019t you move, but everything you don\u2019t want seems stuck to you!<\/p>\n<p>To the spiritually uninitiated, it feels as if you\u2019ve been dropped into a river of resistance but, in truth, <em>you are being pulled into it by a lower level of self that wants you to look at whatever challenges you in life as an adversary.<\/em> Its attempt at deception\u2014to negatively alter your perception\u2014is the only power it has to keep you from seeing unwanted moments as they are in reality: an invitation from the Divine to outgrow your present limitations. Regardless of the nature of the trial set before you, it asks, \u201cWould you like to live in a larger world\u2014one without fear? Do you want to be less worried or angry and more at peace with yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We may not yet be able to hear these questions or discern for ourselves the perfect timing of their compassionate appearance, but they are always present at the \u201cpoint of impact\u201d\u2014whenever some event reveals an unseen limitation of ours. We may be given to see, for instance, how our impatience with someone we love trumps our wish to be more understanding of him or her, or perhaps we see that anger still gets the best of us when pressed into some stressful situation. You fill in the condition, but here\u2019s the point:<\/p>\n<p><em>No unwanted condition or its outcome can change until we outgrow the nature responsible for it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This realization empowers you to do something with unwanted moments that has been impossible before. Now, instead of trying to avoid those moments of crisis where you feel suddenly inadequate or limited in some way, you see\u2014and meet\u2014these old fears as a new opportunity to realize the boundary line between who you have been and are yet to be. All seemingly impassable moments in your life are seen for what they are: a predestined place for you to meet, let go, and outgrow that lower level of yourself that used to stand fearfully before it. <em>The boundary between limitation and limitless disappears, and now you stand on the side of unlimited possibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Freedom is not found by fighting with what you think stands in your way; your true spiritual liberation rests within this one unthinkable realization:<\/p>\n<p><em>What is in your way is part of the way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once it\u2019s understood that whatever seems to be set against you has actually been put there for you to outgrow it, then you have received, opened, and accepted the invitation of the Divine. 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