Pressure Points

True happiness and joy is found in the state of being, which transcends all in this material world. The state of being is a state of surrender; surrender to the Self and subsequently to God, who is always present in the Self. Through this state of being, the act of living becomes fully recognizable. For, living should be an act of being, not doing.

Living as an act of doing or doing to live, does not have much purpose in of itself. Living, then, is a confusion sequence of fulfilling obligations and duties. In short, that we must do in order to live. Life is hard enough, heavy enough by itself with out having this ideology of necessity hanging over it.

Living as an act of being, however, is what truly frees the soul and makes it open to receiving joy and happiness. Living as an act of being, reduces the act of doing to a byproduct of merely living; by living we do. However, for this to happen, we must first surrender ourselves, probably multiple times a day, to trusting God and allowing him to take control. Any time we try to take control, to do without first being, things can quickly spiral out of control.

Everything will still get done, our obligations and duties of daily life don’t go away, for after all, living is doing. The only difference is that the focus has changed. Instead of trying to bulldoze our way through the dirt pile of life with only our own strength for momentum, we instead open ourselves to grace and joy and let the resulting peace and energy carry us through, eradicating the heavy weight of obligation and replacing it with the joy of living.