Question:

You often use phrases such as "true alignment with life" and "inner alignment with what is". How can we ever be out of alignment with what is? Surely what is is WHAT IS and must include confusion, resistance and non surrender to the present moment.

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Answer:
What you say is the truth.  As long as that truth is not recognized, however, there is suffering (which of course is part of what is.)  As soon as it is recognized, a new dimension arises: awareness, Presence.  This is the awakening, the shift, the transcendence of suffering.  So, when I say alignment with life I mean conscious alignment.  Non-surrender to the present moment is ultimately only non-recognition that you are already one with what is.  This is the illusion of separation (which, of course, also has its rightful place within the totality).  So we are all on a journey from unconscious to conscious alignment with life.  (Please see also A New Earth, page 163/64 for another perspective on this).