When it comes to the inner journey, my mind is constantly oriented on making progress. I believe we are here to learn certain, necessary lessons for our soul’s progress and resting on our laurels seems counter-productive to this goal.

This attitude can be both helpful and detrimental to my progress. “Helpful” because it keeps me aligned with forward momentum, but “detrimental” because I risk judging myself when I miss the mark on the progress I’d prefer to be making.

When I’m not mindful of this “self-judgment” trap, I unconsciously lock horns with ego, which sets up a scenario where I fight against what is happening, instead of accepting it as a way to move forward.

One of the main contributing factors to this problem was my inclination to confuse gentleness and acceptance with becoming complacent in my goal to progress on the inner path.

I’d hear a speaker urge and encourage us to accept our ego nature and mentally I would balk at this advice thinking it was unnecessarily slowing down our progress on the inner journey…

I’d think to myself, “If the goal of the inner journey is to …

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