that When you argue with reality, you lose. Only always!
This potent observation of Byron Katie’s do-looped in my mind this week. Why?
Because I argued with reality. I resisted a situation that was happening. I thought it should be different. Should being the operative word—the first clue that I’d left the world of “what is” for the world according to me.
In the world according to me I indulged my ego, my judgments, my story making and my self-righteous indignation. Even though I knew better, it was seductively satisfying in a perverse kind of way.
But another part of me witnessed my crazy-making with amusement and short circuited my indulgence. I just couldn’t sustain it. I let go of the illusion of being right for the freedom and resourcefulness that comes with acknowledging what is.
In the computer world a do loop structure repeats a set of statements an indefinite number of times, until a condition is satisfied. It took me a few hours. But I finally got it. Katie’s voice stopped. And then came peace.
Maybe next time, I’ll get it more quickly.
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