The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Since avoiding the pain prohibits you from exploring the part of your being that is beyond that layer, real growth takes place when you finally decide to deal with the pain.

The stuff that holds you down periodically rears its head. When it does, let it go. You simply permit the pain to come up into your heart and pass through.

Do you doubt that a single blockage getting hit in your heart could cause a fall that lasts a lifetime? It has been known to happen.

Just open, relax your heart, forgive, laugh, or do anything you want. Just don’t push it back down.

The very act of differentiating the amount of awareness focused on one particular object over any other creates clinging. And the result of clinging is that selective thoughts and emotions stay in one place long enough to become the building blocks of the psyche.

The Way is in the middle because that’s the place where the energies are balanced.

That which is holding you down can become a powerful force that raises you up. You just have to be willing to take the ascent.

You can actually train yourself to forget how to close. Closing is a habit, and just like any other habit, it can be broken. For example, you could be the type of person who has an underlying fear of people and tends to close when you first meet them.

Then one day, when you least expect it, you fall through into the infinite.