How Can I Be Safe? Rumi and Adyashanti Answer...

"Where, where can I be safe?
Only in giving up all wanting and trying"

~Rumi



Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often
what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and
safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a
state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in
seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the
Freedom you want. There is no security in Freedom, at least not in
the sense that we normally think of it. This is, of course, why it is
so free; there's nothing there to grab hold of.
The Unknown is more vast, more open, more peaceful, and more freeing
than you ever imagined it would be. If you don't experience it that
way, it means you're not resting there; you're still trying to know.
That will cause you to suffer because you're choosing security over
Freedom.
When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your
experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown
deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just
intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what
you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were—you had a history
and a personality—but from this place of not knowing, you question
all of that. Liberated people live in the Unknown and understand that
the only reason they know what they are is because they rest in the
Unknown moment by moment without defining who they are with the mind.
You can imagine how easy it is to get caught in the concept of the
Unknown and seek that instead of the Truth. If you seek the concept
you'll never be Free, but if you stop looking to myths and concepts
and become more interested in the Unknown than in what you know, the
door will be flung open. Until then, it will remain closed.

~Adyashanti