

It’s a constant struggle to keep it together. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. You will have to keep everybody and everything straight in order to reconcile your conceptual model with reality. You actually feel that because youve minimized the pain of the problem, youve solved the problem. Youre floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you continue to cling to what you built, you will have to continually and perpetually defend yourself. In fact, you built your house in empty space. You were told not to build your house upon sand. There is no peace and there is no winning in that struggle. The problem is, there is no way out that way. Now we have to fight to keep it together.

This is all because we have attempted to build solidity where there is none. People feel their very existence is at stake, and they will fight and argue until they get control back. This will keep you from getting lost in it. Your mind does not stop struggling until you’ve processed the event or somehow made it go away. Begin this journey to freedom by regularly reminding yourself to watch the psyche. By drawing on different spiritual practices, this book explains how you can. “long have you been hiding in there struggling to keep it all together? Any time anything goes wrong in the protective model you built about yourself, you defend and rationalize in order to get it back together. The Untethered Soul is all about you: your feelings, thoughts and consciousness.
