Q. Why is it so hard to make something happen?
A . When someone says they want to make something happen, there is assertiveness there that makes me feel uncomfortable: egotistical willfulness. The person may think he or she is spiritually strong or motivated. Such a person repeatedly attempts to make things happen and gets almost frenetic in their intention.
Then their effort to make things happen becomes counter-productive. The person gets disappointed because they couldn’t make it happen, when they think God is not helping them or supporting their intention.
The premise of making things happen is false, because it implies personality can make it happen. Willfulness meets with failure because it equates with resistance to what they want to happen. Is it not so?
For anything to happen that is desirable and preferable, one has to let it happen, and that’s not possible unless one acknowledges that the desirable can manifest when no resistance is offered to its manifestation.
For that manifestation to occur, you have to cultivate the belief and feeling that generates a sense of euphoria, deepening trust, and joyful appreciation of the process within self-manifestation. For example, consider anything you passionately desire to experience, and let us assume you believe you can achieve it. Belief alone will not accomplish it unless you first have the feeling of having it or experiencing it in your imagination. Then it must follow that in the presence of nonresistance, the desirable manifests in or as one’s experience. And it does so with greater acceleration when one daily sets aside a period of time, such as 15 or 20 minutes, several times a day, entering into the subjective reality of the heart’s desire.
Hence, what is vital to moving beyond making something happen is understanding the law of manifestation—that like attracts like and that love makes all things possible, that is, love without resistance in whatever form, imagined or seemingly real.
Furthermore, what is acquired is the cultivation of focus to such a degree that at first there is only the clarity about what is desired, then the fusion with the desired. And from that comes the realization of the inner reality as the outer reality.
True focus with practice gives us the skill to be free of distractions. When that freedom is achieved, then attraction to what is desired brings fulfillment. Understanding this, there is nothing we cannot achieve, for all that is desired or desirable already exists. The question then remains, in conclusion, do I attempt to make things happen, or do I align myself with what is and allow it to be born through total acceptance and appreciation as though it already had been achieved?
In short: Willfulness is egotistic assertion, which contrasts with willingness to let it happen.
