Literalism inadvertently undermines spirituality

I think any sense of the spiritual helps me, but literalism in my understanding has often hindered the benefit.  My condition means I hear words literally and for some reason this tends to interfere slightly with spiritual ‘letting go’.  I used to trade peace of mind for the notion of certainty. 
For me a sense of the spiritual - perhaps strange to some - starts with ‘what can I do?’ Not ‘what can’t I do’.

Reality is what exists: what I can do, what I have, not the

Imaginary, the Unreal: what I can’t do, what I don’t have. 

focus on the solution and it increases