How To Stop Drifting Through Life By Making Conscious Efforts (Bitesize Wisdom #127)

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If you are someone who has embarked on a journey of self-knowledge, of self-development and have found yourself to stop making any efforts in relation to your higher aim, we can say that you are now drifting in life.

You have fallen asleep at the wheel, your mechanical tendencies have you under their spell, and as a result, you have forgotten all about your inner work. Being asleep, we are said to be drifting because we live a reactionary life. We are led this way and that way by the situations and circumstances we encounter in life.

Our journey on the progressive path towards self-realization depends on effort, and not just any effort, but effort of a special kind. Effort of the general kind is mechanical in nature. This kind of effort is what life makes us do. If it rains we need to pull out an umbrella, this is what I mean by mechanical effort. Through these general efforts, we adapt to life.

Conscious effort means effort that is not necessary and required by life. Life does not cause it or is the source of it.

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