It’s me again. That’s the situation. The solution is to realize it’s always me again! We begin our inner work not knowing that we cannot change ourselves. A few years of inner work goes by and we realize that yes, it is indeed us again. That is the earthly situation and we are not learning to witness this “me.”
Decades go by and it is still us again. But now we have seen beneath many of the layers of self-deception. The main one is that we can change anything.
Vernon Howard always worked with situation and solution. You can plug in your own and see what happens. For example, the situation is that I always withdraw from challenges. All I can do is witness that flaw in my makeup. It is now that I can make an honest request to God. “God please help me, I cannot change myself.” That is the very beginning of humility.
That honest request at the end of your post is a simple, truthful and humbling little prayer. It says enough. It asks enough. “Me again” will utter it, in my heart, meaningfully throughout the day. Thank you! Namaste.
The lessons keep repeating themselves because we are so slow to learn 😉