Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
Every fault acknowledged, every defense dismantled, and every pain felt and released, gives us powerful new reserves of thought and feeling for creating our lives in positive new directions. And, on the other hand, every negative attitude unconsciously perpetrated, every defense held on to, and every pain denied, ties up our life energies and limit
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Our healing depends on just such a process of incorporating opposites. The competent adult steps aside and reveals the damaged child. The wounded victim yields to uncover the cruel perpetrator. Our spiritual path will lead us to embrace every pair of inner opposites, bringing out of the shadow whatever has been hidden away as unacceptable, mean, pe
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When you enter this moment, you begin to experience a moment that is actually free of suffering. If you enter it wordlessly, openheartedly, allowing yourself to feel whatever is there, you find that you’ve got the key to letting go of suffering right in your pocket. When you start to become present here and now, it’s not unusual to feel fear. “Oh!
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If we want love and power, pleasure and creative expansion, we must also be willing to feel fear and helplessness, pain and contraction, because trying to exclude these “bad” states will so constrict our capacity for experience that the “good” will also be unavailable. When we close off awareness of any one side of ourselves, we also close off its
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