Work

Inside us are two creatures. One, our essential nature, which is also our essential goodness, can only say yes, and therefore this yes is unconditional. The other, our ego, which struggles to dominate our essence, either says no or a conditional yes (yes but or yes if). The work, the only real work, is to relax sufficient to let the unconditional yes start winning and then keep winning. To begin with yes appears as faint glimmers – small transient islands poking through the morass of self – but gradually it becomes clear that the morass itself floats on an ocean and these islands come from this ocean – an ocean of essence. When we see this for ourselves we can let the morass begin to break up and dissolve into the ocean. Then it is just a matter of time.