“Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic […]
“The heart is meant to be broken.” Its purpose is that it should melt into tears and disappear. The heart is to evaporate, and when the heart has evaporated, exactly in the same place where the heart was, you come to know the real heart…the deeper heart. Just like an onion, you peel it, and
A Practice “When you are unoccupied for a few minutes and especially last thing at night before falling asleep and first thing in the morning before getting up, ‘flood’ your body with consciousness. Close your eyes. Lie flat on your back. Choose different parts of your body to focus your attention on briefly at first:
In the Flow It seems to me that contemplation makes it almost inevitable that your politics is going to change, the way you spend your time is going to be called into question, and any smug or inferior social and economic perspective will be slowly taken away from you. When anyone meditates consistently, the things
“In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is
We wake up so that we can live from the heart, from the wholeness and completeness of life. It takes great courage and commitment to actually live and express this still point of love and clarity in daily living. It seems that life needs us—now more than ever—to attend to the heart of things, and
Food for thought…JG Bennett LA. SALVATION IN WORLD 24 (PLANETARY WORLD) In this stage we fulfil our own Destiny. This is not in time, but in eternity. We become eternally ourselves. We are liberated from accident. This is the realm of super effort. The essence must be freed from illusions of time and space: life
Try this practice. Next time somebody is talking, drive your attention into the body. And listen to each word they are saying without trying to think of what you’re going to say next. Even allow for a space of silence when they stop talking to begin speaking. Be aware of this space, this will allow
“This sacred practice.” “It is the quiet itself that is important,..we need to discover the nature of silence, when thought, feeling and body are all silent…In being attentive to the nature of silence, I feel an intelligence awaken…this intelligence is sacred and cannot be in service of the ego, or ambition.” (Reality of Being, Jeanne
Jung on the Tao “But if we understand anything of the unconscious, we know that it cannot be swallowed. We also know that it is dangerous to suppress it, because the unconscious is life and this life turns against us if suppressed, as happens in neurosis. Conscious and unconscious do not make a whole when
