The space in between. part I

Some of our differences lie on how I see the world.

How I feel in the world.

How confident or comfortable I am in the world

How I perceive it. 

Some are confident and can easily interact with anyone and anything that might come their way. 

They have a stable foundation.

Let's say that they have a good social or even spiritual immune system and so they are not afraid to interact with any kind of person or situation. 

While some others, most of us, we might find it more difficult or challenging to face certain situations.

And that is good because we are growing. 

We need more time to adapt adjust improvise 

Listen observe decide and then interact. 

Possibly we have a more sensitive nervous system. 

That needs more time to absorb certain reactions. Just like the car wheels when you bump into situations. 

And then you become apprehensive towards human presence as it may seem quite unpredictable. 

You turn your attention outwards so that you can predict situations and be prepared but actually the best defense is to rooted in your own being. 

To have a strong core and be attached only in your inner source of life. 

That's the only way. 

Temporarily the outside can help or even the other way round but it's only for a little while until you learn again to use your own feet. 

It seems hard in the beginning but soon it gets better and better and it's really rewarding.

You can soon also become that confident person that is grateful for whatever life brings to her/him. 

As you will be more and more rooted in your own being. 

And how to get to know that inner being? 

One can read the scriptures, approach a bonafide guru, associate with those that are in a more stable platform. 

The one of bhakti. 

Ancient scriptures like the Bhagavat Gita as it is and Srimad Bhagavatam, provide the knowledge for any kind of circumstances and go beyond the material world we live in. 

By reading the scriptures, that are more than 5000 years old, despite all this nonsense that's around us through the media,

 we can become aware of our true nature that we are not the body, and not the mind or emotions but we are the spirit soul, part and parcel of Krishna and we are eternally happy and blissful and our constitutional position is to serve Krishna with all love and devotion. 

Bhagavat Gita as it is 

Chapter 2 text 16

नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः ।

उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ॥ १६ ॥

nāsato vidyate bhāvo

nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ

ubhayor api dṛṣṭo ’ntas

tv anayos tattva-darśibhiḥ

Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both.

Purport

There is no endurance of the changing body. That the body is changing every moment by the actions and reactions of the different cells is admitted by modern medical science; and thus growth and old age are taking place in the body. But the spirit soul exists permanently, remaining the same despite all changes of the body and the mind. That is the difference between matter and spirit. By nature, the body is ever changing, and the soul is eternal. This conclusion is established by all classes of seers of the truth, both impersonalist and personalist. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (2.12.38) it is stated that Viṣṇu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence (jyotīṁṣi viṣṇur bhuvanāni viṣṇuḥ). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.

This is the beginning of the instruction by the Lord to the living entities who are bewildered by the influence of ignorance. Removal of ignorance involves the reestablishment of the eternal relationship between the worshiper and the worshipable and the consequent understanding of the difference between the part-and-parcel living entities and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One can understand the nature of the Supreme by thorough study of oneself, the difference between oneself and the Supreme being understood as the relationship between the part and the whole. In the Vedānta-sūtras, as well as in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Supreme has been accepted as the origin of all emanations. Such emanations are experienced by superior and inferior natural sequences. The living entities belong to the superior nature, as it will be revealed in the Seventh Chapter. Although there is no difference between the energy and the energetic, the energetic is accepted as the Supreme, and the energy or nature is accepted as the subordinate. The living entities, therefore, are always subordinate to the Supreme Lord, as in the case of the master and the servant, or the teacher and the taught. Such clear knowledge is impossible to understand under the spell of ignorance, and to drive away such ignorance the Lord teaches the Bhagavad-gītā for the enlightenment of all living entities for all time.

Bhagavat Gita 2.17

That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.

Translation by Srila Prabhupada 

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/2/17/