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It is not easy to live with an enlightened person, or rather it is so easy that the ego finds it extremely threatening. Remember that the ego needs problems, conflict, and “enemies” to strengthen the sense of separateness on which its identity depends. The unenlightened partner’s mind will be deeply frustrated because its fixed positions are not resisted, which means they will become shaky and weak, and there is even the “danger” that they may collapse altogether, resulting in loss of self. The pain-body is demanding feedback and not getting it. The need for argument, drama, and conflict is
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The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.
To go beyond the mind and reconnect with the deeper reality of Being, very different qualities are needed: surrender, non-judgment, an openness that allows life to be instead of resisting it,
the stronger the ego, the more distant you are from your true nature.
do not use the pain-body to give you an identity. Use it for enlightenment instead. Transmute it into consciousness.
Do not let the pain-body use your mind and take over your thinking.
full attention means full acceptance.
Since mind and resistance are synonymous,
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.
Ego is the unobserved mind that runs your life when you are not present
When you feel sorry for yourself, that’s drama. When you feel guilty or anxious, that’s drama.
Whenever you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.
When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life. Nobody can even have an argument with you, no matter how hard he or she tries. You cannot have an argument with a fully conscious person.
When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change.
The whole advertising industry and consumer society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer sought to find their identity through things.
Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain.
The ego believes that through negativity it can manipulate reality and get what it wants.
If “you” — the mind — did not believe that unhappiness works, why would you create it?
let everything pass through you.
Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace.
When you accept what is, every piece of meat — every moment — is the best. That is enlightenment.
your healing influence is primarily based not on doing but on being. Everybody you come in contact with will be touched by your presence and affected by the peace that you emanate, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Resistance is the mind.
The fog is your life situation, which includes past and future; the flashlight is your conscious presence; the clear space is the Now.
surrender is the most important thing you can do to bring about positive change.
You cannot be conscious and unhappy, conscious and in negativity. Negativity, unhappiness, or suffering in whatever form means that there is resistance, and resistance is always unconscious.
If you can never accept what is, by implication you will not be able to accept anybody the way they are. You will judge, criticize, label, reject, or attempt to change people.
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so — your resistance is.
You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.
Full attention is full acceptance, is surrender. By giving full attention, you use the power of the Now, which is the power of your presence. No hidden pocket of resistance can survive in it. Presence removes time. Without time, no suffering, no negativity, can survive.
there is no death — and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies.
If you think that you need more time, you will get more time — and more pain. Time and pain are inseparable.
The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That’s why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
