BUT FROM WAKING
The attention paid to it varies a great deal from person to person and at different moments in life.
Almost everybody, however, will recognise that, at least at certain moments, he has felt (as well as an egocentric, selfish tendency), this need for something infinite or 'absolute'.
At first you will see your thoughts from a new and different perspective.
And then, when you are ready, you will begin to wonder who it is that is
aware that you are thinking.
Whoever it is, is the one
you want to explore!
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You must not try to do with
the mind what must be done with the Spirit.
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Become aware of the many "I's" in you. Watch how one takes over and then another.
Also see that they do not represent the true you, but consist of borrowed opinions and imitated viewpoints.
Such Self Observation weakens their grip; you eventually find your real "I".
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You can either be a host to Spirit, or a hostage to your ego.
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A meditation hall is not a
place for bliss and relaxation, but a furnace room for the combustion of our egoistic delusions.
What tools do we need to use? Only one. We've all heard of it, yet we use it very seldom.
It's called attention.
Attention moves in the field
of awareness much like a spotlight in a lighted room. Awareness illuminates the world (inside and out), attention spotlights the various content.
Today, consciously move
your attention from thing to thing while remaining aware that you're doing so.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because
we fail to notice that we fail
to notice, there is little we
can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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In the present we can undo the past and release the future. Horrible things may have happened in the past, but we don’t owe those horrible things our present
or our future.
If the voices re-telling the story could change it,that might be worthwhile. But they can’t. Only we can reclaim our precious now by letting
go the old stories.
You can use your past as strength for your present.
Today, look to see which
old story you are ready to bless and release.
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If we want to evolve spiritually, we don't need to get rid of the ego or even overcome the ego.
We simply need to learn
how to access the part of
us that is ALREADY beyond the ego.
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Whether you realize it or not there is one question that
you have had in your heart that has followed you all your life and you need to know the answer to it...
That question is...
"why can't I love more?"
Ask yourself that question - deeply, from the bottom of your heart - and listen to the answer you get.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that
makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
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There's something about that person I don't like about ME.
This speaks about the condition referred to as projection which has to do
with us ascribing to others
any unconscious behavior that we would prefer not to see in ourselves.
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What you are looking for is who is looking. That which
you are seeking is causing you to seek. Our deepest heart’s desire, our authentic nature, is drawing us home.
What you are looking for is doing the looking. The guidance you seek is guiding you.
Today, allow yourself to sense that which has been guiding you back to your heart.
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"A successful man is one who can lay a foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him".
David Brinkley
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
Ghandi
Don't just be a Christian, be Christ like.
Don't just be a Buddhist, be Buddha like.
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"Only in the spotlight of being present am I able to subdue
the shadows of the past.
Then I can walk where no ghosts follow.
Will you join me?"
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"One who lives in wisdom,
who sees himself in all and
all in him, whose love for
Spirit has consumed every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart. Not agitated by grief, nor hankering after pleasure;
that one lives free from lust and fear and anger. Fettered no more by selfish attachments, not elated by good fortune, nor depressed by bad. Such is the seer."
When we become identified with that within ourselves that sees and not our cunning
ego we find true freedom, peace
and love.
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'When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be'.
Lao Tzu
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Enlightenment:
The state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible; something that, almost paradoxically, is
essentially you & yet is much greater than you. It is finding you're true nature, beyond name & form.
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
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A problem existing on the
level of conditioned thinking cannot be solved by conditioned thinking. A problem cannot be solved on its own level. It cannot be done any more than a man can lift himself by pulling upward on his own legs.
Something higher, something outside of himself must be contacted.
That something is awareness.
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Know 1 Self
Many indications lead us to feel that there are two natures within us.
One of them is personal or individual and is relatively accessible to our usual
means of perception.
The other, much less easy to perceive, is experienced as
our participation in something far greater than the individual. Thus we call it
spiritual, even universal; and, in fact, we hardly know how to speak about it.
AWARENESS
A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
A WHOLE NEW WORLD
CONSCIOUSNESS
BEYOND EGO
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The Human Condition
The human condition can be reduced to 2 basic drives:
1/ the need for love
2/ the experience of fear (arising ultimately from the fear of death).
We spend most of our lives controlled (unconsciously) by ego where the first of these
deep human drives eludes us...and where the second prevails; leading, more often
than not, to the experience of anxiety and turmoil.
Moments of clarity, if we are fortunate enough to have them, can serve to highlight this
but we usually do not have the tools or the knowledge with which to effect any change.
One can only resolve to obtain the knowledge and develop the tools needed in order
that the afternoon of our lives can move away from the grasp that ego has and towards
the life where the need for love is satisfied.
GK
THE NEW DREAM
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The Way Is Clear Enough
The
way is clear enough.
Do
we want to walk it?
That
is the question.
What
is the way?
It is to:
Remember the necessity of waking up.
Use all happenings for self-illumination.
Refuse false and shallow comfort.
Seek first your authentic Self.
Be
neither surprised nor dismayed by your hundreds of blunders
along
the way. Walk on. Remember that conscious blunders are
advancements.
This means to sense the wrongness of an act or
attitude,
even while doing it.
And
have no concern for the many things not understood as yet.
Attend
only to your very next step, giving it all your attention,
whether
it be reading for knowledge or reflecting for understanding.