The universe presents situations for different reasons. You choose how to view and react to each event that unfolds. Consider these twelve possible answers to the query, "what are obstacles telling you?
1) Review the path you are on (for it no longer serves you).
2) Recognize fear is the root cause of perceiving an obstacle.
3) Prepare to be disillusioned.
4) Stand back and revise your thought process.
5) Confront your emotional demons.
6) Revisit your values and goals.
7) See a stepping stone to an unforseen, beneficial situation.
8) Redefine "progress" and "success."
9) Accept yourself as you are and inner harmony that is.
10) Re-examine the underlying nature of the question.
11) Let go of the insatiable external quest for answers.
12) Stop living in the past or future. Just be in the now.