Feelings

The only problem with sadness, desperateness, anger, hopelessness, anxiety, anguish, misery, when we want to get rid of them. The feeling looks like a barrier now.

We will have to live with them because we cannot just escape. They are the very situation in which life has to integrate and grow. They are the challenges of life. So we accept them. They are blessings in disguise. If you want to escape from them, if you somehow want to get rid of them, then the problem arises – because if you want to get rid of something, you never look at it directly. And then the thing starts hiding from you because you are condemnatory; then the thing goes on moving deeper into the unconscious, hides in the darkest corner of your being where you cannot find it. It moves into the basement of your being and hides there. And of course the deeper it goes, the more trouble it creates – because then it starts functioning from unknown corners of your being and you are completely helpless.