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So spend some time seeing each of the things you cling to for what it really is, a nightmare that causes you excitement and pleasure on the one hand but also worry, insecurity, tension, anxiety, fear, unhappiness on the other.
#foodforthought#happiness#source#unhapiness
Your life as it is now: nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself you cannot be happy without: nightmare.
#reflexions#happiness
The moment you choose to become like someone else however great or holy, you have prostituted your being.
#beyourself#virtuous#untainted
No one can sin in the light of awareness. Sin occurs, not, as we mistakenly think, in malice, but in ignorance. “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” To see this is to acquire the indiscriminate quality one so admires in the rose, the lamp and the tree.
#holiness#wisdom#love#sense
And here is a second quality of love—its gratuitousness.
#love
The moment you say so-and-so is wise or is cruel or defensive or loving or whatever, you have hardened your perception and become prejudiced and ceased to perceive this person moment by moment, somewhat like a pilot who operates today with last week’s weather report.
#love
The symphony of life moves on but you keep looking back, clinging to a few bars of the melody, blocking your ears to the rest of the music,
#moveon#listenthesymphony#enjoy#loveyourself#love
For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.
#love#peace
It is enough for you to be watchful and awake. For in this state your eyes will see the Savior.
#awareness#holiness
