This Bitter Cup

"The cup of karma must be drank to its bitter dregs".

Many people have habits. Some of them life-long, many of them life-threatening, all of them like velvet ropes which bind us tightly to the material world.

Like Attracts Like. What one desires is what one will manifest.

In order to assist the process of tearing away from this false, objectified reality, we must dismantle the habitually erroneous patterns of thoughts, feelings and actions that bind us to that false reality.

HABITS

Habits have to be forsaken. This is necessary, as habits of a material nature represent the "super-glue" that reinforces our bondage to the material world. The break has to be clean, has to be permanent. It can't be "I'll just cut down", or "maybe I'll just do it on special occasions". It is also counter-productive to utter the Famous Four of Futility: "I can't do it".

It has often been noted that once we say "we can't", then we won't.

Habits are carried forth from life to life. New ones are developed, while others may be extinguished. Each life is an opportunity to release and expel these demons from our auric field. All too frequently, we fail to do what is necessary and succumb, yet again, to the unseen forces that dominate us.

One of the keys to overcoming a habit is to establish that the physical body and the lower self - the personality - should not be in control of how one thinks, feels and acts. One must, through an act of will, re-assert control over the lower vehicles, if one wishes to re-establish balance and make progress towards reunion with the divine Higher Self.

It will not happen overnight, although that is possible for those who are truly ready to stop indulging a particular habit. But if one sincerely tries and fails, get right back at it. In this way, resolve is built up, and it gets a bit easier, one moves a little further next time. It may take years, it may take lives, but once the seed has been planted, the tree will grow.

It is said that "one must hit bottom" before one leaves habits behind and begins the long climb back towards Life. There is truth to this, and the quote at the head of this post is a reflection of that. We can make no progress towards the Higher Life until we are finally through with feeding into this fabrication of existence. When one is truly ready, all that is false will fall away. For some, this will happen sooner, for others, much, much later.

It is, indeed a bitter cup from which we stubbornly drink. Empty the cup of death, for good. Choose to return to Life.

~~ g