To identify with any experience of life, no matter how whole it makes us feel in that moment must -- at some point -- reveal that the “experiencer” of that moment is, in fact, apart from it.
Life gives. Life asks. And when, at last, we are willing to surrender whatever Life may ask of us, excluding nothing -- let alone our most familiar sense of self -- then, for having died to the fear of death we are set free.
Part 1: The pretense of kindness, of being loving, does not make those qualities real in us any more than an actor who plays the role of a talking tree in a play by Shakespeare is endowed with the strength of an oak! Part 2: When we finally understand that we can not "prove" ourselves in this world without having first compared ourselves to it -- and that this kind of comparison is the unseen...
The only thing good about any negative reaction is the revelation of how useless is that (level of) suffering to change anything about our present nature, let alone the condition it convinces us to blame for its pain...
Part I: Like a small child drags his or her cherished blanket along behind them where it is pulled through whatever it finds on the floor, so too do we drag along our unwanted moments in life... Comforted on the one hand by the familiarity of these lingering associations, even while the weight of these moments pulls us down punishing us with their painful refrains. Part II: We would all reali...
We human beings are born with the natural wish to love, to be creative, to enjoy success, to find lasting contentment. The fact that this longing was placed inside of us means that its natural fulfillment exists. Our deepest wishes -- prayers of the heart -- are made to be fulfilled... once you know how to ask for them. You just need to learn the secret to making prayers that work!...
When you no longer want to look at the world through the eyes of anyone else, you will at last know what it means to see.
When we have moments where someone or something does what is upsetting to us, we look out and see a world that is out of order, do we not? And the pain we are experiencing in that moment cannot be separated from our perception that this person, this thing is wrong and out of order.
One must lose hope in the false idea that winning the approval of others has any real power to quiet the nature within that doesn't know what else to do with its sense of being incomplete save to imagine itself as being something it's not. If I am what I believe myself to be, why do I need anyone else to confirm it; and if I am not what I believe I am, then can anyone's confirmation of this il...
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There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever.
The fortunate soul who, seeing with only one eye -- even it, barely half-open -- is, in fact, a virtual king in any realm where all of its citizens are blind...