Living A True Life, Not Just A Lifestyle

“When you’re willing to be still…to stop this forward thrust of accumulation, of a lifestyle, you can give your life, the attention of your life, to discovering what is life.”

When we begin a search for peace or happiness, we may simply be looking for better circumstances, or wanting to feel less lonely, or hoping to release feelings of guilt or sorrow. As we walk that path we may fall into just another lifestyle or we may discover a much deeper truth—the truth of who we are, consciousness itself. How can we honor that discovery, honor our lives as we live each day? What does it mean to live a true life in the wake of recognizing the truth of who one is?

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Gangaji distills emotional agility, presence, and basic therapy in 28 minutes. So beautiful and helpful. Thank you! 🥰

Exactly what I needed to hear this morning. Thank you 🙏🏽

That was…EXTRAORDINARY.
The power and liberating clarity of what Gangaji offers with a few inquiries and astonishing insight? Worth its weight in any precious metals, if we can simply remember: we have the choices of which she speaks, and, above all, that we just need to *stop*, in this very moment.
“Stop processing,” she intones. “Just stop narrating. stop the story about it. Stop punishing, stop “shoulding.” Stop assigning value judgments to our emotions as good or bad.

Simply, she shows that we can just observe. Not easily, but, still: simply. Then, we can say, “there is jealousy here” and with that, we stop fighting it, or trying to make it okay, or trying to rid ourselves of it, or telling ourselves a story about it.

It is only then that the human struggle can cease, along with the acute suffering and misery that are its companions. This is the freedom afforded by this choice—if we can only just stop, for a moment.

I love how she observes that it might be possible to “be fine” or “be okay” with whatever is here—-even if that very thing is unwanted, or unpleasant; not fine, and not “okay.” Just naming the thing, and ‘dropping one’s attention into it’—merely getting curious about it—has the magic of diminishing this “thing” against which we might push. THAT is the “crack in the veil” to which Gangaji alludes, and it is deliciously alluring.

“Not a trick,” she insists. “Not a dogma. Not a “SHOULD.”

This? This is spiritual genius on a non-religious-“lifestyle” level—one that I can TRULY get behind. Thank you for capturing it, and for preserving and posting it. What a gift.