No matter what happens below you, just turn your eyes upward and relax your heart. You do not have to leave the seat of Self in order to deal with the darkness.
You don’t have to constantly be mulling over what you said or what this person thinks of you. What kind of life are you going to have if you worry about these things all the time? Inner sensitivity is a symptom of non-well-being.
You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside.
Consciousness is always drawn to the most distracting object: the bumped toe, the loud noise, or the hurting heart.
So there are two ways you can live: you can devote your life to staying in your comfort zone, or you can work on your freedom.
Ultimately, if you protect yourself perfectly, you will never grow.
The spiritual journey is one of constant transformation. In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times.
Reality is just too real for most of us, so we temper it with the mind.
I am so grateful that surrender had taught me to willingly participate in life’s dance with a quiet mind and an open heart.
So you decide to use life to free yourself. You become willing to pay any price for the freedom of your soul. You will realize that the only price you have to pay is letting go of yourself. Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. It doesn’t matter what others do, unless you decide that it matters to you.
When you walk through a beautiful botanical garden, you feel open and light. You feel love. You see beauty. You don’t judge the shape and placement of every leaf. The leaves are of all sizes and shapes and they face every-which-way. That’s what makes them beautiful. What if you felt that way about people? What if they didn’t all have to dress the same, believe the same, or behave the same? What if they were like the flowers, and however they happened to be seemed beautiful to you?
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it. If you don’t understand this, you will try to figure out which of the many things the voice says is really you. People go through so many changes in the name of “trying to find myself.” They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is simple: none of them. If.
Letting go of yourself is the simplest way to get closer to others. The.
In the end, if you stay happy, you win.
You must realize that when you defend yourself, you are really defending your walls. There is nothing else to defend in there.
You will eventually get conscious enough so that the minute you see the energy start getting strange, you stop. You stop getting involved in the energy.
You end up loving your edges because they point your way to freedom.
Unfortunately, most of us are not that wise. We’re really not trying to be free of our stuff; we’re trying to justify keeping it.
Do not doubt your ability to remove the root cause of the disturbance inside of you. It really can go away.
Real spiritual growth happens when there is only one of you inside. There’s not a part that’s scared and another part that’s protecting the part that’s scared. All parts are unified. Because there is no part of you that you’re not willing to see, the mind is no longer divided into the conscious and subconscious. Everything you see inside is just something you see inside.