“The trouble with people is that they’re busy fixing things they don’t even understand. We’re always fixing things, aren’t we? It never strikes us that things don’t need to be fixed. They really don’t. This is great illumination. They need to be understood. If you understood them, they’d change.” - Anthony De Mello, Awareness • I’ve spent so much time trying to figure out how to fix my situation or how to fix the way my brain works or how to fix this, that or the other thing. But then I read the above excerpt and my opinion of said “problems” changed. What if I stopped trying to fix them and started to see, feel + understand them? What if I gave them room to exist and allowed the Universe to work? What if the problems are there because they‘re things I need to understand in order to grow? • Imagine just allowing things in your life to exist without always trying to “fix” them. Imagine not running from them, but staying a while and finding an understanding. It sounds so simple, but we’r...