An intellectual grasp of non-duality is all very well, but to know and inhabit that Reality requires a long and arduous grinding down of the individual identity.
The real hero is the one….
The real hero is the one who acts with ease and accomplishes life without creating fake mountains to climb. We do not look heroic attacking what is not real.
When the time comes….
When the time comes for people to give up their “goodness”, they stop doing spiritual practice.
The problem with real spiritual practice….
The problem with real spiritual practice is that we have to work. We can become the master only by surrendering to the Master: God. And though that sounds simple, it is anything but easy.
If I will not acknowledge….
If I will not acknowledge that I am holding something, then I cannot drop it.
An emotionally cathartic….
An emotionally cathartic experience is not necessarily a spiritual experience.
The problem with “positive thinking”….
The problem with “positive thinking” is that we are not just “thinking positive”, but actively trying to avoid something we perceive in ourselves to be “negative”.
A Shaktipat experience….
A Shaktipat experience is meant to shock the small self. When we make it into a concept, we render it impotent.
It is easy to….
It is easy to say “I accept this”. But who is doing the accepting?
What the small self….
What the small self calls love is really only power and pleasure.