THE SEDUCTION OF LIMITATION

Human beings possess an inner space and universe that is balanced by the immensity and power of the space and universe around us.

Look out into the night sky. Feel into the immensity of it all. Then open the aperture of your perceptions and look inward. Like Dr.Who's tardis, the inner space belies its modest outer appearance. In fact, the space inside is no less immense than the space out there.

Why would we want to say "No" to that?

We get hooked on the Intensity of Limitation and the Drama of Separation. We become junkies for it.

Faced with the fact of limitless space and energy, we fall back in dismay and opt for restrictions of the cruelest kind.

We limit ourselves to cautious highs and shallow lows. then we seek artificial ways of intensifying what remains within the self-imposed narrow spectrum of what is acceptable.
Both spiritual ascetics and emotional victims fall prey to the same seduction of Limitation. Ascetics form their cocoon at the higher end of the vibrational frequency scale, Victims cower at the lower end. But they are all cocoons just the same. The sin is the same -- a refusal of Magnificence.

Then, having created a "safer" space, we get inured and addicted to it.

You think not? Try challenging someone who wants to be right about his/her limitations, and watch how vigorously they fight to defend what's causing their pain and suffering. Trying to separate a Victim from his/her limitations is like pulling teeth without anaesthetic.

We pay a terrible price for our voluntary exile from The Full Monty. We miss the lurid grandeur of towering mountains and resplendent valleys. We miss the pastel subtleties and nuances of inner knowing. We'll suppress, express, dump or otherwise deny a feeling, anything rather than have it. We will resist any possibility outside of the narrow comfort range we have set for ourselves

By staying safely tucked away inside our self-set limits, we imagine we are in control.

And we miss the greatest discovery of all.