Get Out of the Way: Remembering the Infinite Foundation You Already Are
- Dorry Aben
- 3 days ago
- 5 min read
There is something pulsating through you right now. Through everything, actually. A source energy — a foundational intelligence — that underlies all of reality and everything living within it. You are not separate from that. You are built upon it. You are it.
Most of us have simply forgotten.
Not intellectually. Most of us have encountered the concept of oneness, of source, of universal energy in some form. We have read the books, attended the talks, nodded along to the ideas. But concepts are not the same as embodiment. Walking around with a spiritual framework in your head is a very different thing from actually living from that foundation — from feeling it as the ground beneath every step you take.
That shift — from concept to lived experience — is what life is currently moving us toward. And the beautiful thing is that it doesn't require more learning, more methods, or more spiritual frameworks. It requires less. When we truly embody this truth, all the concepts fall away, all the teachings fall away, all the methodology falls away — because none of it is required. There is a simplicity washing away all the complexity we have built on top of it.
The Waves and the Ocean
Human life can feel enormously intense. Emotions surge. Circumstances arrive that knock us sideways. Relationships stir up what we thought we had resolved. Old patterns resurface at inconvenient moments. And it can seem, in those moments, as though something is going wrong.
But here is a different way to understand what is happening: the waves of human experience are simply your form catching up with your infinite nature. The personal catching up with the universal. When life feels turbulent, it is not a sign that you are off track. It is often a sign that more of your true nature is coming online — and the residue of everything that isn't aligned with that truth is being surfaced, felt, and released.
This is not a process to resist. It is a process to welcome. Life is moving in accordance with an evolutionary momentum driven by universal intelligence, and it is working on your behalf — always.
Getting Out of the Way
The single most useful thing you can do right now is remarkably simple: get out of the way. Not passively. Not by checking out or going numb. But by stopping the constant interference — the need to understand everything, to control outcomes, to make meaning out of every passing moment, to turn every experience into a story about yourself.
Think about what happened in nature during the Covid outbreak when human activity paused. Life flourished almost immediately. Dolphins appeared in places they hadn't been seen in years. Rivers ran clearer. The natural world did what it always wanted to do — it just needed us to stop blocking it.
The same is true internally. Life — your life, your essence — wants to flow. It wants to move through you, complete what needs completing, and reveal what has always been underneath. All you have to do is stop standing in its way. Feel what arises, fully and without resistance. But you do not have to become it. You do not have to make it mean something about who you are.
The Collective Dimension
Here is something that may bring unexpected relief: the struggles you carry are not entirely yours.
The anxiety, the guilt, the shame, the cycles of judgement and self-criticism — none of it originated with you. It existed before you were born. It is part of a collective human inheritance that all of us descended into when we came into form. The rage, the sadness, the fear, the conditioning — it is collective and was all already in place.
The patterns you are working through are not personal failures. They are collective experiences that you signed up to meet, to feel, and — through your willingness to face them — to help liberate. You are not broken. You are not behind. You are not doing it wrong. Your life is your contribution. The liberation of your essence is your contribution. And that matters far more than anything you could achieve or produce.
From Personal to Universal
Most of us spend our days meeting the world through a thick layer of personal processing — meeting people not as they actually are, but through the filter of what we have decided about them, what we need from them, what we fear from them. We are so used to relating to our concept of life rather than life itself.
Imagine instead meeting the infinite in others. Recognizing the same foundational light in everyone you encounter. Not needing to assess, categorize, or protect. Just receiving — and being received. Appreciating the unfolding happening in front of you without needing to judge or fix or change it.
This is not exhausting. It is the opposite. Depletion comes from operating out of the personal — from holding space from a contracted, defended place. But your infinite nature never runs dry. When you meet life from that expanded foundation, everything becomes energizing rather than draining.
There Is No Problem
The deepest invitation here is perhaps the most radical: to genuinely recognize that there is no problem.
Not as a way of dismissing what is hard or painful. But as a true recognition that every experience moving through you is life in its intelligence moving you from one way of being into another — from a foundation that was never truly sustainable into one that is. When you look at whatever arises directly, with openness and without flinching, it begins to shift. Fear dissolves into life force energy. Rage softens into spaciousness. Grief moves through and makes room for something quieter and truer.
You do not have to have it all figured out. You do not have to arrive anywhere. You are the light, the love, the stillness — foundationally, before this life began, as it's unfolding and beyond when it ends. That is what is consistent. That is what is real.
Lean your identification into that. Let everything else flow through.
You are already what you have been looking for. Life is simply showing you the way home.
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