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With 20/20 hindsight anything profound appears simple. What's interesting about us human beings is if something appears simple, we become inured to it. We've trained ourselves to be skeptical of it. We've become conditioned to step over it. Somewhere along the line we bought into ie we invested in cleverness as prudent - big time. We got clever ... too clever for our own good, perhaps. "You've got to be kidding me!" we say. "It can't be that simple?". If it's that simple, we assert our intelligence by diminishing any possible impact it may have on our lives. We're right. We know life isn't easy. We're clever. Don't tell us life is easy! You can't con us into believing life is easy ... We've learned. We know life is hard (isn't it interesting how life then obliges us by manifesting what we know and shows up hard? ... but that's another conversation for another occasion ...).
It's a pity, because life is simple. It's really easy. That's why children have no difficulty having fun playing all the time - if we let them. Adults, on the other hand, have learned. Man! Have we learned ... We've become clever, too clever. We're too clever to have fun.
Having now set a context, here's something simple, something so obvious it's imminently in danger of being ignored irrespective of its enormous value: whatever I'm resisting in my life right now, the way to move on past it is to go through it. To "go through it" doesn't imply giving in to it, becoming resigned to it, submitting to it, or even dealing with it. If, indeed, going through it implies anything at all, it implies choosing it. In other words, it implies choosing what's already so. No guesswork. No figuring out. Simple? You bet! Too simple? Be careful: that's the trap.