Appreciation Journal : 2nd May 2020

'You can't win the war with your mind because your mind outsmarting itself is a contradiction. The struggle stops because you perceive from your experience that all of the struggle actually just makes you more caught in the thing you're struggling against so even though it's completely counterintuitive...it's possible to come to see that the only way to get out of the dream state, the trap of egoic consciousness is to allow it to be, as it is, completely. As soon as it's allowed completely to be, at any moment, meaning you don't try to solve the dilemma of being caught in it, then there's nothing for the mind to grasp on to...the egoic mind (95% chaotic v the 5% practical mind) lives on resistance. When there's no effort to escape from it, you've denied the egoic state of consciousness the one thing it needs to remain in a trance state : it needs struggle! Otherwise, consciousness will start to wake up or leave the trance state of egoic consciousness...all by itself! Consciousness doesn't need any help in waking up from egoic consciousness. Everything you do to help it actually hinders it. ' :A