The Disturbance

When you become disturbed about a situation do you generally blame the situation for your feeling disturbed?  This seems to be the case when not sufficiently on a spiritual path.  The outsides control the insides.  Choice has been taken from us.  We are powerless to be otherwise.  Feelings rule.  I suggest that maybe something might be the matter with us when we let outsides have this effect.  Otherwise, we try to change the outsides to make us feel better.  There is an axiom that says, whenever we are disturbed, no matter the cause, there is something wrong with us.  In most cases I believe this is so with many of us.  Choice has not been taken from us.  We have given it up.  Why?  Because choice takes work, a spiritual practice that works on our insides so that we can exercise choice when stuff happens.  Life on life’s terms does not mean we must be miserable when things don’t go our way.