We are not who we think we are. Real Love beckons.
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The book-in-progress The Art of Breaking Character (Volume I) contains writings on over a hundred different topics related to the path of awakening, healing or wholeness. Each of these begins with an Essential Lesson on the given topic. Here is a selection of five key concepts from the book and their Essential Lesson. I. Breaking…
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10 months ago, a trauma-processing motor switched on inside of me. It was about 10 p.m., and I was sat in the bath, listening to a podcast about the nature of consciousness — minding my own business, relaxing before bed. All of a sudden, my head tilted back, and my experience went black. My awareness…
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1 :: All shame is a kind of lie. It tells us we are insufficient – for being too loud, too dumb, too dirty, too nerdy, too fat, too crazy… We are nothing of the kind. We are distorted – yes. We are in pain – yes. But our value and our worth were never…
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1 :: (Cultivating the Witness) If we are to ‘become like God’, or rather become That in us which shares identity with God – the Atman – we must see the validity and sacredness for all things as they are. We must not turn our gaze away from that which we hate, fear, or find…
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1 :: (The fabled ‘surrender to God’): You do not need to know what you are surrendering to – God, the infinite, the Source, Brahman. In fact, you cannot know. No image or concept will scratch at the surface of the reality. The effect (and the magic) is in the surrendering – in the creation…
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1 :: “To put it into words is to destroy it.” J. Krishnamurti. 2 :: The world as it is prior to description, as it is in itself, is without distinctions or demarcations. A tree is not a tree – it just is. 3 :: All truths expressed in language are approximations. Everything I say…
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1 ::Take deadly seriously that there is living inside your mind a world of smaller islands of consciousness – sub-minds: inner children, inner villains, inner heroes, frozen-off men and women. They are listening all the time. They await from you a message of compassion and reconciliation. This transformed me. :: 2 :: “I need a…
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1 :: All peak moments in life involve the temporary dissolution of the character: beauty, love, ecstasy, creativity, oneness. :: 2 :: Beneath the mask of the character is a world of potential that yearns to be born into the light. Denying this for a lifetime deadens us. Opening up to it gradually – lifting…
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1 :: Spiritual traditions teach that an encounter with the divine is available only when the intellect grinds to a halt and a pure unself-conscious witnessing of experience takes place. And yet the scientists, analytic philosophers and materialists of the world continue to think themselves out of such a relationship, insistent that if God existed,…
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1 :: ‘The tyranny of the past’*(a term used by Peter Levine): trauma weighs us down with a lifetime of unprocessed feelings. If we wish to be lighter our task is simple, albeit not easy: learn to feel again; shed the past. :: 2 :: Trauma is often not dramatic. Subtle indoctrination to the young…
