The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
So any idea of what an awakened life should look like is just an idea, just an imagination, and as long as we’re trying to make our lives look like anything other than what they are, then we’re lost. We’re just spinning in our own imagination. The true significance of any of our lives is something that’s very, very close. It’s in each breath you ta
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It is consciously being what we really are - Capacity for things - the Space in which each of them is allowed to arrive at its peculiar kind of perfection. It is consciously viewing everything from its Source, reuniting it with the Infinity that lies this side of it. It is hearing, seeing, smelling, touching things as if for the first time, relieve
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So what’s the way out? How do we avoid becoming lost in our own thoughts, projections, beliefs, and opinions? How do we begin to find our way out of this whole matrix of suffering? To begin with, we have to make a simple, yet very powerful observation: All thoughts—good thoughts, bad thoughts, lovely thoughts, evil thoughts—occur within something.
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What’s going on in the heart ends up in the mind as thoughts. The samskaras you stored are trying to release their energy from the heart, and that is causing the mind to get active. The roots of the samskaras are stored in your heart. That is where the patterns you shoved out of your mind went. They did not dissipate. They went down further into th
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