Pain

1. Trust the process

2. It is by design - imagine a conveyer belt

3. Sit through the process and pain - moving will disrupt the process and pain will shift elsewhere. It may look that the pain has been relived but it will settle elsewhere and the whole process will start again. It’s painful every way.

4. The pain will becoming soothing after a bit - it’s a sinusoidal wave - it does become better if we have the patience to follow the process by all design principles.

5. Pain is a teacher. 

6. Pain helps to focus and get attention.

7. Pain is more helpful overall.

8. It diminishes ego. 

9. In the absence of ego the true process can start. 

10. The process is designed to move from gross to subtle sensations.

11. We want the subtle sensations since they are at higher frequencies.

12. Higher frequencies tend to zero. 

13. At some point the bliss starts taking over such that the sensations don’t matter as much and hence right action can be performed. 

14. The bliss keeps you preoccupied and is a happy state of its own - only because it’s like a high and the mind can come up with out of the box ideas. 

15. Shifting the focus changes the state of being. 

16. We become all powerful and come closer to the essence 

Meeting

If there were two things that had to meet at the present moment - those things have to be ready for each other. If they are really destined to meet, they will avoid each other absolutely till they are ready to meet. These things could be people or events. They will engage with literally anything at all but each other. This is true for everything. If we see time as a continuous straight line, these two items are rivulets that take their pre-determined path to intersect at the common place at the right time. They cut their teeth on everything around to prepare for this meeting - they meander till they face each other and then they meet. 

Matrix

We are living in a matrix. Everything that we are experiencing is planned and it is happening just as it should. Every moment of struggle and peace is planned. It is so because just as in a perfect program, the variables and constants can take only certain values in a particular workflow. We are playing out a script, we are bound by that script and even when we know that there is a script, there is nothing more to be done than to wait for the script to play out. 

There are things happening as per design. Characters in a certain situation are behaving as per design - for my benefit. It is up to me to view this as a boon or a bane. But overall the universe is merciful - it is trying to make me better. It wants me to elevate myself to the next level. It has no other intention. Hence I try to see everything as a boon. Every problem as they say is an opportunity.  

It makes me feel safe, this planned life in this planned matrix. I mean, some where I'd be a lot more worried if this was all baseless and pointless. There is a point to this. 

I have to be the best version of me. And so does everyone else. 

Ring

Universe conspires to get your greatest wish fulfilled. There was no way I could have found my thumb ring, given where it was. Yet I found it, magically after a 5-6 days of losing it! I am happy :)

"We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
-Robert Frost