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RE: Why Aren't You BEING All Those Things You Say You "Really Want to Do?"
"...when there are always "clever sayings" and "motivational words" floating around in my head so much."
Here's one that floats around in my head quite often :-)
“It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff
Ah yes, Gurdjieff... learned quiet a bit from his teachings during my "Enneagram and Fourth Way phase," many moons ago.
What Eckhart Tolle more recently calls "Sitting in your painbody." People are very attached to their painbodies... I catch myself sitting in my own and have to consciously extract myself.
On a large scale, it seems like humanity does itself a huge disfavor by — in many ways — making it "noble" to suffer, and "indulgent" to be content. But I shall not get started on religious dogma here, because this will just become insufferably long!
I find that there are still depths to be mined when I listen to the audio version of All and Everything. As far as pain is concerned, I am very observant of how attached some people are to their suffering. "Without my suffering, who would I be? I'd be nothing!"
The suffering has built strong bonds within our internal worldview, the pleasures may be fleeting. It is the breaking of those bonds that is hard work because it takes energy to do so - it is thus more efficient to not change.