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Here are a few excerpts from a book I recently read, "You Are Enough: Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility," by Panache Desai.

Samadhi is counterintuitive to your operating system, because it is not a matter of striving, grasping, or achieving. It isn’t bestowed upon you based on the books you’ve read, the courses you’ve taken, or the influence of the spiritual path you’ve chosen to pursue. You don’t need to renounce the physical world, live in an ashram, or meditate three times a day. You can have a beautiful family, enjoy a glass of wine, watch your favorite TV show, relax in a cozy home, and appreciate all the other gifts of this world. 

To reach samadhi, all you truly need is yourself.

Your essential self is vast. It is pure consciousness, universal awareness, and it is the foundation of all expression, creativity, and expansion in this world. It is “you” in your most unadulterated form. You entered this world with this essential innocence and purity, but life’s events have distanced and covered over the core foundation of your being. You have forgotten the essential you. When you forget, you do something very curious. You experience your mind thinking, your feelings arising, and your body functioning, and you conclude that those aspects of your experience are the totality of who you are. You say, “I’m fat,” “I’m depressed,” “I’m poor, broken, and hopeless,” “I’m angry,” or “I’m stupid,” as if you are the thought, feeling, situation, or body part. But these are misidentifications, ones that cause unnecessary pain and perpetuate limitations. You have been conditioned to overly identify with your mind and body, and this conditioning has imprisoned your being.

The late and blessed Wayne Dyer once said, “When you squeeze an orange, you’ll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what’s inside.” This means that if you have denser energies like bitterness, anger, or frustration lying dormant in your vibrational system, then situations will occur in your outer reality—perhaps a criticism, betrayal, or delay—in order to allow those energies to be brought to the surface, felt, and released. 

Someone can only make you angry or sad if you already have the vibrations of anger and sadness within you. When you oppose someone, it is an energy within yourself that you are opposing. When your “buttons get pushed,” it is because the buttons are there in the first place.

The average person has between eight and twelve subpersonalities hiding inside, ready to jump out to protect the created self. These subpersonalities might take certain archetypal shapes such as the rebel, the tyrant, the mother, the innocent, the white knight, the saboteur, or the guardian, just to name a few. The reason that “spiritual” people have so much difficulty dealing with these parts of themselves is because they have been trained to believe they are unacceptable. Who wants to admit that they are on occasion powerless over their mind and body? It is only through complete, loving, heart-centered acceptance and inclusion that you can integrate the pain that created the subpersonality. When the pain is gone, the subpersonality collapses upon itself.