![]() Pain is unbearable because Truth is denied, and lies are made real in your mind. What your heart calls you to do, but you don’t, creates pain. You want to start your own business, but you don’t. You want to become a writer, but you don’t. Pain shows up every time you deny, ignore, or rationalize away the Truth: You want to work with children, but you don’t. You will be defeated, you will suffer, but you will not have regrets.Īll of us are familiar with the pain and suffering of having a dream and not knowing how to make it a reality. The only way to come back to life is to acknowledge and follow the voice arising from your heart, calling you to return to love, to return to Truth.Īn old proverb states that if you follow your heart in life, you will not have regrets. It never works because the emptiness is not around them. They keep hoping that by changing the external conditions of their lives-earn more money, be in better physical shape, have another partner, or travel more-it will change how they feel. Why do you think the waiting rooms of psychologists and psychiatrists are filled with successful people who realized after twenty or thirty years of work that money, a career, a house in the suburbs do not bring peace of mind and joy of heart? The way to find joy is to leave the cage, not to decorate it and make it prettier. The greater the gap between what love calls you to do and what you actually do, the deeper the depression you can fall into. Her heart is screaming from a golden cage, and she doesn’t listen. She feels even worse when she looks around her because she has no apparent reason to feel depressed: She earns a great paycheck, has a loving husband and a beautiful child, but she’s sinking into depression. She stays in her job without the true will to do so.Įveryone envies her. I am in my thirties, and I have a child – What will my parents say about me quitting my job after they supported me through college?Įven though she doesn’t want to, she then acts as she thinks she should. She feels love flowing through her.īut in an instant, her mind drags her in the opposite direction: Every time she thinks about her calling, her heart fills with joy. Her spirit is willing to start this new business. However, her dream is to open a restaurant. Mind against heart, and behavior against will-it will break you.įor an example, I have a friend who is project manager for a financial corporation. This is why Jesus said that the kingdom divided against itself will be destroyed, and the house divided against itself will fall (Mark 3:24–25). Anger, anxiety, and depression follow with certainty, as darkness follows the sunset. Whenever your behaviors conflict with your will, whenever you think and act against Truth, tension grows within yourself. You can choose one or the other-but you can’t have both. Your will flows through your heart, and pulls you toward what you truly value in life.
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