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There may be a reality out there, but we can perceive it only through the filter of our subjective perceptions, which means that no one can ever know what’s absolutely true.
Being split from ourselves is hell. Reclaiming integrity is the way out of it.
We’re especially leery of people or ideas that might shake us out of our cultural assumptions and preconceptions.
You are infinitely worthy. You are infinitely precious. You have always been enough. You will always be enough. There is no place you don’t belong. You are lovable. You are loved. You are love.
When someone embarks on integrity and refuses to look back, culture pulls out its whole arsenal of control strategies to make them drop their stupid obsession with integrity and go back to acting normal !
“Know what you really know, feel what you really feel, say what you really mean, and do what you really want.”
Whether it’s five years or fifty-five, it’s not all that long. You have no time to waste on suffering, no time to keep torturing your nature to serve your culture. The time for integrity is now.
“Practice doesn’t necessarily make perfect,” he’d say. “Practice makes permanent.”
This lack of balance doesn’t come when we allow union with our true nature, but when we split ourselves away from it.
As Marianne Williamson wrote, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”
Such a powerful quote.
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities,” said Suzuki Roshi. “In the expert’s there are few.”
“Eternal” doesn’t mean something that lasts for a long time, but something outside of time. Remember, Dante is becoming identified with light, and at the speed of light, time no longer exists.
