"Surrender does not transform what is, at least not directly. Surrender transforms you. When you are transformed, your whole world is transformed, because the world is only a reflection.
If you looked in the mirror and did not like what you saw, you would have to be mad to attack the image in the mirror. That is precisely what you do when you are in a state of nonacceptance. And, of course, if you attack the image, it attacks you back. If you accept the image, no matter what it is, if you become friendly toward it, it cannot not become friendly toward you. This how you change the world.
Illness is not the problem. You are the problem _ as long as the egoic mind is in control. When you are ill or disabled, do not feel that you have failed in some way, do not feel guilty. Do not blame life for treating you unfairly, but do not blame yourself either. All that is resistance. If you have a major illness, use it for enlightenment. Anything "bad" that happens in your life _ use it for enlightenment. Whithdraw time frome the illness. Do not give it any past or future. Let it force you into intense present-moment awareness _ and see what happens.
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
Are you seriously ill and feeling angry now about what i have just said? Then that is a clear sign that the illness has become part of your sense of self and that you are now protecting your identity _ as well as protecting the illness. The condition that is labelled "illness" has nothing to do with who you truly are."
The Power of Now
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