There is no greater satisfaction than realizing that we have changed, that things no longer have the same meaning, that what was so important no longer affects us and that is what we can call change.
You know you're changing when you no longer care about how they judge you, when you no longer care about anyone's approval, and the illusory demands for beauty, money, material comfort, and so many other things begin to wane.
You know you are changing when you feel good about yourself and you no longer need to beg for affection, much less kneel before existence with a saucer in your hand waiting for affection.
You know you are changing when you no longer feel the need to control people, nor the prosaic events of everyday life, when you learn to trust life and can surrender to the imperatives of existence itself. When you realize that sailing is more important than living, and you no longer live insanely, wanting to change the course of the winds.
You know you're changing when you realize that you don't own anything, not people, not the things you cling to, when you feel that all this belongs to the Universe and it's up to you to witness.
You know you are changing when you are easier to forgive, and you realize that your change has been dramatic when you are no longer offended by things that were previously difficult to assimilate.
You know you are changing when you no longer place the responsibility for your happiness on others. When you stop looking for what you will only find inside you.
You know you're changing when you realize you've wasted precious years looking for treasure, not realizing that you've been sitting on it all along.
You know you are changing when you manage to release the boards that have given you security during life and decide to swim in this sea of existence, without fear of drowning. When he is able to get rid of religious beliefs, political convictions, philosophical anchors, institutional manuals and everything that comes from outside with the intention of controlling him.
You know you're changing when you're not acting like a programmed android, when you can think for yourself and are able to say no to outside opinions.
You know you are changing when you take full responsibility for yourself, stop blaming others, and stop expecting them to solve your problems.
You know you are changing when you can take power over yourself, sit on the throne and manage your inner world, without letting yourself be influenced by the advice of darkness (ignorance) that guides you.
You know you can change everything when you realize that it is God, who is able to face all adversities, who can transform reality itself with only the Will.
You know you are changing when you begin to discover yourself, to know yourself, to realize that you can do much more than you imagine, that your limiting beliefs can be changed, that your mental program can be redone, that the karma of existence can be changed through forgiveness and self-forgiveness, which does not need to be an enemy of itself and that the world, in addition to a great school, is also a SPA, where we must clean ourselves of all our emotional garbage.
Can't you change? That's what you think! Like it or not, change happens, even if imperceptibly.
Want to accelerate change? Stop getting in the way, as there is already an evolutionary bias in you. There is an irresistible force that comes from within, which does not accept your laziness, your cowardice, your inertia and ignorance.
Rest assured that the best way to speed up this process is to stop wanting to control everything, but for that you need to trust.
All this is already ready within your true Self. It's only up to you to find yourself.
The Persian poet Rumi used to say, "Why do you stay in prison when the door is wide open?"
