To let down our barriers is to let go of our small self, to come back to our True Self

 

Spiritual practice can seem hard for some people, but the real source of difficulty is not found in any of the usual reasons for a task to be truly hard. It is not about lack of skill or lack of time. To believe, “I can’t do this,” or, “I don’t have time,” is to misunderstand why spiritual practice feels difficult. It feels “hard” because it requires us to let go of self-centered protective barricades and to risk feeling vulnerable to an unseen enemy. But life is not a military action. There is no enemy; defeat exists only in the imagination. To let down our barriers is to let go of our small self, to come back to our True Self, to a deep sense of belonging to something vast,...