Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have

Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have

Is it possible to fully accept, even love, the life you have? Is it possible to drop the struggle to make yourself and your life different? Acclaimed teacher and bestselling author Roger Housden says yes in this profound alternative to nonstop striving and self-criticism. Whether about our relationships, careers, or spirituality, many of us judge ourselves as not measuring up. But fulfillment comes when we stop struggling and learn to trust the wisdom of what life presents us with.

Housden wrote Dropping the Struggle as someone who, up until a few years ago, spent much of his time in a covert struggle with life. Despite his success, he often felt that something was missing. He struggled for years with an ongoing spiritual longing, with questions of meaning and purpose, with the search for love, with all the usual difficulties of being human, until he finally realized â€” though not with his thinking mind â€” that the only thing life was asking of him was to rest in a deeper knowing that was always there, usually silently, behind the arguments and strategies that would so commonly occupy his conscious self.

â€œStruggle will never get us the things we want most,â€ Housden writes, â€œlove; meaning; presence; freedom from anxiety over the past and future; contentment with ourselves exactly as we are, imperfections and all; the acceptance of our mortality â€” because these things lie outside the egoâ€™s domain. For these, we need another way. That way begins and ends in surrender, in letting go of our resistance to life as it presents itself.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer New World Library
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-08-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New World Library
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-08-05
Format	Kindle eBook

Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have

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