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Emergence to my friend Stephen Dinan, CEO of the Shift Network,
Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
Ajahn Amaro
Noah Levine • Dharma Punx
A. H. Almaas, the revered spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach, in his seminal work Essence (1986),
Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
In my journal I began to address my local selves as I practiced holding my “I” of identity as my Essential Self. My practice is to consciously shift from listening and being guided by the inner voice to speaking as that voice. In this way, I learn to act with my ego in service to my Essential Self.
Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
Jack Tanner
Angelism regards the human person as a spirit imprisoned in the body. We are the angels that fell from heaven. Our task is to raise our spirit back up again, not to make it happy with its prison and its gaoler (the Devil!).
Ervin Laszlo in The Chaos Point.
Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
Dipa Ma and other Buddhist teachers demonstrate the remarkable possibilities of the awakened heart. In Transformations of Consciousness, Harvard psychologist Jack Engler reports on his study of Dipa Ma and other advanced meditators.
Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.