You are life. You aren’t a separate me who has a life, as if you’re outside of life, owning some little corner of it. There are no corners. There is no separation and so there is no one to own anything. You and life are one in the same.Life wants to live. I mean, it looks
As Linda woke up to the fact that her mind was trying to help her, but that its conclusions were not accurate or helpful, she was less fooled by it. She saw the wisdom in her habit.She realized that she didn’t have a hard time kicking the wine habit because she was weak or seriously
The only thing ever going on when there is any bit of discomfort or discontent is this: a thought believed.Thought arises and is viewed as all-there-is.There is never anything else going on. Thought arises and is viewed as truth. That’s it.It is that simple, but here’s why it won’t feel so simple: it will most
When we think our experience is all there is, we’re often afraid to look at it. When it feels uncomfortable or dangerous and true and personal, we numb. We avoid. We look away. We distract ourselves from our experience of life in countless ways, like staying chronically busy, needing to be surrounded by people or noise,
I talked with Clare Dimond a few weeks ago about this quote from The Little Book of Big Change:“Your habit is not “you” and it is not personal. It is simply your brain doing what it does.”We dissected this quote line by line.Your habit is not “you”. Of course it isn’t. Who or what is
The search for something that will make us feel complete can literally never be won.I’m not saying it’s difficult, it will run you ragged, or maybe try something else instead.I’m saying it’s impossible.The idea that something can be missing–the seeking itself–is the illusion of separation. It’s the illusion that there is a fragile, needy “me”
Minds think their survival, which is really the body’s survival, depends on them knowing all they can about you and your weaknesses so they can save you from future failure. One of their favorite tools for knowing the future is comparison.Comparison is how the mind secures its position as “safe” and “enough.” To a mind,
I had a falling dream the other night.My son and I were crawling across a steel beam that was about two feet wide and 1000 feet off the ground. We were doing it together, inch by inch, very slowly and very carefully. Our deaths were highly probable and we knew it. As we inched across the
Since you were about eighteen months old, thought has been masquerading as you.It began labeling and naming things and people, including a very special label called “me”. Anything felt to be arising around “your” particular bodymind became you and yours, me and mine. Sensations felt in the body were called “my feelings”. Thoughts in awareness
The worries and concerns that flash in awareness–and they truly are just a flashing reflection of images, sounds, and sensations–are unique. Sometimes they talk about your health or the health of loved ones. Sometimes about money. Often about something being missing, you not measuring up or needing something you appear to not have. Around this time of
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