Inner Effort is a Requirement for Fulfillment

Inner Effort is a Requirement for Fulfillment

This article was written in June 23, 1975 by my late spiritual teacher, Gregory Grover; I would like to share it with you. “One of the requirements for fulfillment is that we live with strong effort, effort expended for the sake of satisfying the requirements of our inner being. If we do not feed ourselves with enough effort, we are inwardly dissatisfied and blame conditions for this dissatisfaction.

This morning I spoke to Theodore, a member of our group, who related his fears that a few physical deficiencies might make him unattractive to girls. When I suggested that these deficiencies could be remedied, he replied that he would ten feel unnatural because he really wouldn’t be himself. Obviously, it was illogical that he would speak about these physical lacks and then avoid doing any thing about them. This simply proved that he was using these deficiencies an excuse to cover up some deeper problems. We then studied the idea that he was afraid of competition with other men and was using his deficiencies as a buffer to ease the pain of ejection. But as we worked toward the idea that he drama is within us, we were now able to uncover the real problem. Theodore’s inner being was demanding that he live with much more effort expended for his own sake, and not because of external motivation, that is, to get approval from others, to be superior to others, or for monetary gain.

Effort must be expended for the sake of exercising our Beings. Theodore’s parental environment encouraged indulgence rather that the expending of effort, and this was the source of his inferiority. The problem of relating to girls only served as an opportunity to express, in a camouflaged way, the unfulfilled requirements of his inner being. The problem in Theodore had nothing to do with external circumstances. It proved once again that our real problems are within us. The Drama is indeed within.”