Each of us has our own silent War With Reality. This silent, unconscious war with How It Is unwittingly drives much of our behavior: We reach for the pleasant. We hate the unpleasant. We try to arrange the world so that we have only pleasant mind-states, and not unpleasant ones. We try to get rid of this pervasive state of unsatisfactoriness in whatever way we can — by changing things “out there.” By changing the world. And whatever our particular War With Reality is, the result is always a pervasive sense of the unsatisfactoriness of the moment.
Stephen Cope, The Wisdom of Yoga
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A follower of my post related the similarity of this piece to one I have just written and I know exactly what he means, because I have recently found the futility of reality warfare and the endless struggle for control over whatever may be the predominant battle of the moment. Good words…thanks for sharing this.