There is a great seeming paradox in life.

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It confuses our minds, yet our heart and soul know its true.

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And it is all about our desires.

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Or rather our attachment to achieving our desires.

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For the great mystery is how hard it feels to achieve our desires when we are so attached to them.

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Yet almost the moment we let the attachment go, they almost magically show up.

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Like when we so desire to find a partner in life.

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We seek and search and go out looking for that person everywhere.

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Yet it is only when we give up, and feel we will never find them, they show up in our life.

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What happens when we give up is we release our attachment to finding them, and now they appear.

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Or when we struggle and strive so hard to achieve a business or career goal.

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It feels like we've worked so hard to get that promotion or take our business to the next level.

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We think about how long and hard we have worked towards that goal.

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And those thoughts make it so difficult to drop the attachment to actually achieving it.

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And suddenly, when we least expect it, after we feel that we will never reach it, we get it.

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So why is that?

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Why is it that when we finally drop our attachment to getting the very thing we are seeking, it comes to us naturally?

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It is because so many emotions and feelings come along with the attachment.

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And indeed, the very act of desiring something so much carries with it the fear that it will not come.

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That fear or that story around it is the very energy that keeps it from showing up.

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It is the resistance to achieving it that we don't even know we are carrying around with us.

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So the very thing that pulls us toward the goal is the very thing that repels the goal.

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It is only through the practice of non-attachment that we drop all resistance.

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By being unattached we drop the energy and become neutral to the goal.

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We learn to live without it and still go on.

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We can now stand in a place where we can be okay with or without it.

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And from that place we find surrender and presence to what truly is going on around us.

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That place of surrender is one of the most powerful places to be.

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So is there some big goal or dream you have that you are too attached to?

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Can you drop your attachment and be okay without it?

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Let's try it and see what happens.

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant