These are good questions, Zoe, and important to ask. Although what I would say is there's a clear tendency for the mind to own the inquiry, rather than it being a felt-sense inquiry at a soul level. Let's deal with the contradictions...

Firstly:

On the one hand, he's saying to pursue what you ache for. Then, there's also the advice to be truly okay with the way things are.

You have already created the reality you're in. So accept that. Without trying to change the specific circumstances through some mind-led decision-making. Although do acknowledge that something is missing from what you're creating. Now, work to figure out how your consciousness is already creating the situation - both the aligned aspect of your soul, and the misaligned (by applying the Breakthrough Approach, working with tightness and triggering).

When you learn to accept what you've already created, then the key is to discover your true passions and joy - those things that really move you. Because these are the abode of the soul, and by expressing them, you unleash rightness into your life and create more from authenticity.

Secondly:

Like for me, I have a desire to have more free time so I can do fun things.

Reality follows what you're being - the frequency you're expressing out into the world. So if you identify there's something lacking, and you genuinely feel that, work to express the energy you'd like to have more of. Then life will shape more that way. It seems to me, you're not finding and expressing your passion enough in regular life - is there a stifling of the soul?

Finally, you say:

So I do my best to be okay with the way things are, rather than pursuing endless desires. But to be able to honestly say from the bottom of my heart that I am completely okay with the way my life is would probably take many, many lifetimes.

Again, you've touched a key paradox. To be truly accepting of 'the way things are' is to find true acceptance of yourself - meaning, the deepest aspect of yourself, which is the Absolute, and doesn't need changing. In any given moment, then, it's about breaking through the relativity, which feels like tightness, and into the awesome acceptance of pure presence. This doesn't have to take lifetimes, though - it can happen in an instant. And it usually comes when one becomes disillusioned with the relativity - the external - knowing that you can't truly 'fix' it.

So work just to let go into yourself - it's what I call Absolution.

But once you are in the Absolute, the soul is going to fire and want to create. Only an ego then stops this, or else gets wrapped up in it, 'trying to create something you want'. Only the ego wants. That's where expressing your passion comes in, and creating too, but creating just for the sake of the feeling the act of creating itself.

You work to find a balance - you're settling back into yourself and the abode of the Absolute, but at the same time, expressing into your passion.

Now life will shape around you from the True Self - and this is a progressive, never-ending journey of discovery and actualisation.

See how these illuminations sit with you.

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