INTRODUCTION

between their life and their life situation. I recently read about a famous actress who died in her eighties. As her beauty star ...

youexcept temporarily andsuperficially, but youmayneed to experience manydisillusionments before you realize that truth.Thingsan ...

go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore.Lifeflowswithease. The happiness that is derived from some seconda ...

strengthenstheego,andthatiswhytheegolovesit. Onceyouhaveidentifiedwithsomeformofnegativity, youdonotwanttoletgo,andonadeeplyunco ...

few times. They then continue to swim on peacefully as if the fight had never happened. When I observedthat for the first time, ...

willbemanymore. Whenever you notice that some form of negativity has arisenwithinyou,lookonitnotasafailure,butasahelpful signal ...

None whatsoever. Why did you create it? You didn't. The minddid.It wastotallyautomatic,totallyunconscious.Why did the mind creat ...

trueand lasting inner peace, my honest answer would have tobe"no."Whyhaven'tIfoundit?WhatelsecanIdo? Youare still seekingoutside ...

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otherperson'sradiant and pureBeingthroughyour own. At the level of Being,allsufferingisrecognized asan illusion. Suffering is du ...

Therealizationofthisdeathlessdimension,yourtruenature, istheothersideofcompassion.Onadeepfeeling-level,you now recognize not onl ...

physicalvehiclethatisconstantlyunderthreat. Toperceiveyourselfasavulnerablebodythatwasborn and alittle later dies —that’stheillu ...

other. Nothing is what it seems to be. The world that you create and see through the egoic mind may seem a very imperfect place, ...

states and feelings, so our collective reality is largely a symbolic expression of fear and of the heavy layers of negativity th ...

contribution toward bringing about a better world, toward creating a different order of reality. It is only at this point thatyo ...

of cause, does not exclude the possibility that your compassion may simultaneously manifest on the level of doing and of effect, ...

entrenched. You will become identified with one of the polarities, you will createan"enemy,"andso bedrawninto unconsciousnessyou ...

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things "go wrong"quite often. It is precisely at those times thatsurrenderneedstobepracticedif youwant toeliminate pain and sorr ...

destroy others throughjudgment arises, as does theneedto compete and dominate. Even nature becomes your enemy andyourperceptions ...