The Dark Tunnel of Karmic Review

"I realized that this desire to do this other thing, to write this screenplay, had been making me feel bad about myself for 20 years," she says. "And the minute that I realized that, that I had been using this creative ambition to write a screenplay is some kind of horrible cattle prod that constantly made me feel guilty." Letting go isn't easy; it's like waking up your foot after you've fallen asleep and trying to wake it up again. But once he emerged from that dark tunnel of karmic review, something interesting happened. He didn't want to continue to actively create a situation where whatever he was doing right now would always feel less than.