Who am I? At any given moment, I appear to be the furthest thing out that consciousness has enlivened. So “who I am” changes from moment to moment. My job is to return to Me and stay there, and not identify with what I enliven. This seems so easy, “just be myself”; however, it requires intense work and Grace. We …
Spiritual….
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Spiritual |
Mundane / concrete |
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Absent / lost |
Present |
You cannot control….
You cannot control anything within yourself that you have not owned.
Human Security
Rohini Ralby’s Lessons & Questions class on human security. For more videos and lessons, sign up for a free or paid subscription.
Grandiose self assessment is….
Grandiose self assessment is as detrimental to living fully as low self assessment. They are both faulty and cause decision making that brings the person to misery. There is no harmony when we operate from our self-esteem. Self-esteem is just a set of ideas that we have identified with; we have allowed our actions and decisions to be informed by …
Love self….
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Love self |
Hate self |
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Enable/indulge self |
Criticize self |
Self-esteem gets….
Self-esteem gets in the way of our being ourselves.
Importance of Community
Another class in Rohini Ralby’s Lessons & Questions. For more videos and lessons, sign up for a free or paid subscription.
Student Testimonials
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St. Symeon’s discussion….
St. Symeon’s discussion of contemplative prayer in the Philokalia might serve as a good reference point for the practice I teach. He establishes three levels of attention and prayer. The first level relates to the five senses, with God as Other; the practice makes use of outward props such as icons, statues and formal ritual. The second level relates to the mind, …