NEW SELF KNOWLEDGE AND THE NEXT STEP

·         Each of us grows physically without any real inner strength on our part

·         Social skills develop naturally

·         Inwardly, emotionally while we may develop better ways of covering up the turmoil in our hearts and minds, we never quite outgrow these same old fears and angers, the same doubt & worries.

·         Unlike our physical self which, being under the mechanical laws of evolution, realizes its eventual maturity virtually without any effort, the development of our spiritual self is not evolutionary. It is voluntary. It requires a conscious choice & effort on our part. We must fervently desire it.

·         Until we understand where the true cause of our unhappiness lies, we can never be happy.

·         We start learning from life when we stop blaming reality and accept that it was our lack of understanding that created the perceived problem.

·         Reality is very different from our distorted ideas about it. All those things we are afraid of are nothing more than ghosts created by our own minds.

·         We all have things inside of us that we fear: haunting thoughts and dark feelings. Instead of questioning any of them, we let them work in the dark while we go out of our way to avoid becoming aware of them.

·         Admitting we don’t know these things from ourselves is the first step towards real knowing and a real life.

·         As long as we accept ideas about ourselves and our lives from others and do not do the work of investigating for ourselves, even our comforting ideas will not be a real help in a crisis. We will always be afraid that something incomprehensible and all powerful is lurking below the surface. Only the truth that we know from ourselves can sustain us through any on the basis of artificial truth-false ideas that we never examine and that rarely change based on the lessons of experience.

·         Prudence doesn’t consist in evasion or flight but in courage. He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution let him front to object of his worst apprehension , and his stoutness will commonly make his fear groundless.

Your Inner Victory Conquers All

·         Start suspecting that those anxious thoughts and feeling you catch trying to sell you an umbrella are not there to shelter you  form some approaching storm but that their sole purpose is to lure you into one.

·         The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational but he whose noble sole subdues its fear & bravery dares that danger his nature shrinks from.

·         Our inner victory rewards us with higher resources that help us every moment of the day

·         Any part of you that wants you to hide a weakness, or that would hide one from you, is not from you but is actually against your own best interests.

·         We must get fed up with being afraid of anything and this new courage comes to us in direct proportion to our willingness to learn the truth about ourselves. Any one of these truth is more powerful than a million of lies about our lives that we have all been conditioned through fear, to live with.

·         Take away the whole idea of being defeated in life and fear fall flat on its face. Defeat actually doesn’t really exist.

·         Never accept defeat. As long as it is possible to learn, you need never feel tied down by any past defeat in your life. Here is the real facts:

Nothing can prevent the inwardly self educating man or woman from succeeding in life. And here is why: wisdom always triumphs over adversity. But to him real wisdom calls you to join in a special kind of struggle. And if this battle had a banner under which to rally, here is what would be written upon that higher call to arms. 

You may not know the real reasons why you feel so lonely or worried at times, but you can find out. And you may not understand how you could have been so blind to those evil person real intentions, but you can find out.

TURN TO POWER THAT TRANSFORM YOU

·         Negative feelings are the result of invisible assumptions about responsibility.

·         There is no necessary relationship between responsibility and suffering.

·         Being a truly responsible human being has nothing to do with being an aching human being.

·         Determining the outcome of any event, including our own life, is the task of truth & Reality. No amount of pained thinking or anxious emotion can affect what will be other than to ensure that won’t be as we wish. Our task in any given moment is to meet life with awakened awareness so that our understanding of each situation reflects Reality and not our imagined self-interests.

·         Everything works out as it should when we are responsible for what we are designed to be responsible for. Let what happens naturally take care of itself.

BREAK THE CHAINS OF FALSE RESPONSIBILITY

·         Just drop the burden of feeling responsible for the outcome of every event.

·         As we recognize the futility of trying to force ourselves and our lives into what we think they should be, we also begin to understand that all of our suffering for what we perceive as “coming up short “  in life is self-inflicted.

·         We let go of feeling responsible for the future as though we must control its outcome. We realize that there is no way that our painful concern can positively affect any outcome, so we drop that concern.

·         Now is all there is, future is not ours to control

·         Our responsibility is only to remain aware in the moment and to all ourselves to be guided by and within that awareness. It’s when we leave it at that, our experiences become transformational.

HOW TO CARE FOR YOURSELF IN A NEW WAY

·         We each seem to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders.

·         Our idea of shouldering it is to work hard, struggling to appear important in the eyes of others, as well as in our own. It’s a wearisome task with few real rewards. Since the pressure were under is self-imposed, the only relief we find is when we get off our own backs!

·         Our false sense of responsibility causes us not only to interfere with our own lives, but also with those of others around us.

ANCHOR YOURSELF TO AN UNSINKABLE SECURITY

·         At least once each day try to connect even five minutes of our day. For these five minutes know what you are doing the entire time. So that something in you remains aware of each changing thought & feeling but doesn’t change with them- instead it watches them come and go

·         These moment of inner magic don’t last long as it isn’t in our power to will ourselves onto lasting self-awareness

·         Mistaken notion people have that causes them to suffer needlessly.

BREAK FREE OF ALL PAINFUL PATTERNS

·         “You got to take the good with the bad,” If it weren’t for my sorrow, “ I would never really enjoy my happy times “- such statements are nothing more than propaganda. They are partially truthful ideas all mixed up into false self-notions by the intimate enemy.

·         Things are not always what they seem.

·         Truth can take us out of any unhappy condition because it knows that psychological suffering is based only on our mistaken ideas about ourselves.

·         The nature of the rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

·         What is about us that is vulnerable to being hurt by anything someone else does? With just this one question in mind, that person’s action is no longer the issue. The issue is what is happening with in us.

·         People places and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving a permanent sense of well being. There cannot be a permanent anchor in this physical world of ours because the sea of time dissolves everything. Something permanent exists above the present level of existence.

HOW AWAKENED AWARENESS LEADS TO VICTORY

·         We are inhabitated self, by self, is because we have never been aware of their inner transactions.

·         TPIC has always been the focus of real spiritual studies. Christ called this false self the first,” as in “, the first shall be last. Sufis refer to “commanding self “, western philosophy refers to it as the ego, the persona, or the roles we play.

·         TPIC is not the real you. This means you no longer need struggle with any sinking feeling you have about your life.

·         Freedoms form any conflict, captivity or punishing conditions must be proceeded by your awareness of the disturbance. The pain we feel is due to our identification with these artificial identities.

·         Begin by differently what is real form what is only a product of a confused mind. When you see the angel of death approaching there is a great fear. But when he finally arrives there is bliss.

·         Be willing to meet life with your eyes open in the sense of seeing things do they are instead of listening to the TPIC’s tell you what you see. This shift in psychology must be purposely developed. Higher self-awareness is a volitional act.

·         If we’ll learn to  live without telling our self who we are and without knowing what to do about our pain, the day will arrive when we’ll have seen so much about what’s hurting us, we just won’t look to it anymore for who we are.

·         You have a right not to be negative

MEET THE TEMPORARY PERSON INCHARGE OF YOU

·         These ever changing conditions in life are neutral but the false nature imposes its own meaning on all these life changes; labeling and defining them so much so that the event you see unfolding before you is really nothing more than a circumstantial creation of the false self.

·         From moment to moment, we bounce back and forth from one moment to moment; we bounce back and forth from one temporary personality to another. One is happy and one is depressed. One is excited and one is bored-like a leaf in the wind, our mood and outlooks are blown one way and another, with no central self in control.

·         Each TPIC feels capable of handling whatever the new challenge may be, because it behaves that it is independent of the condition it tries to control. But it is not.

·         Each new occurrence in life gives rise to another.

·         Each new TPIC can only be charge of your life for as long as the condition that brought it into existence continues. A TPIC has no staying power because it is formed by the conjunction of an external cue and a mechanical internal reaction.

THE INTERNAL WORKING OF THE INTIMATE ENERGY

·         Our experiences with reward and punishment completely determine our developing personality including our values, beliefs and Emotional reactions.

·         Certain inborn psychological factors, such as excitability modify our reactions to experiments. This inborn temperament has an important effect on the personality that emerges.

·         We all have a false nature that is presently acting as an intermediary between who we really are and the world is around us. It is this false nature that both creates and places us on the psychological battlefield, and that prevent us from directly experiencing life from the higher, Real selves. This false nature is the intimate enemy.

MEET AND DEFEAT THE INTIMATE ENEMY

·         There are different people inside of you and that they take turns being in control.

·         We are multiplicity of selves is critical to recognizing and ultimately defeating the intimate enemy. None of us is a singular as a whole person. Each of us is a plurality made up of many selves, but convinced we are a singularity. At any moment different self can take the stage.

·         Each is no more than the creation of temporary conjunction of conditions.  “Temporary person in charge “or TPIC to describe them. For one minute to the next our values and desires can change depending upon which TPIC is in control.

·         Each TPIC remains ignorant of the existence of the others. As a result, the division within our self becomes deeper give rise to more unconscious discomfort.

·         We must see clearly that our false nature is a multiplicity that only believes itself to be a singularity. This is the most vital spiritual discovery.

·         Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says “I”. And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this “I” belong to the whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire or an aversion is expressed by this whole.

·         The awareness that we live is an unawakened state from a multiplicity of diverse self brings about the end to all these temporary person who take charge of our lives. As the whirling, changing selves begin to fade, which they must do in the light of our growing awareness of them. Something real, something peaceful begins to reveal itself to us from within us.

YOU CAN BE STRONGER THAN ANY DARK SPIRIT

·  Darkness has no power in itself to hurt us, yet people fear it, why? People fear the dark when they add something to it in their own minds, It is relationship between them and what they have added that frightens them we attribute power to these passing thoughts and emotions.

·  Proceed while being afraid.

·  When the negative state comes, don’t struggle with it or give yourself over to it. Instead, just go on with your life as though it doesn’t exist, for it doesn’t, not in reality. The only true alternative is to go on with our lives as though the things were not there, and if we do that, it won’t be there.

·  Attention animates

                                                                   

POSITIVE STEPS TO DROP NEGATIVE SPIRITS

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair

1.   NEGATIVITY IS OPPOSITION:   Life is not divided up into good and bad any more than the ocean is for or against its own value.

2.   LIFE IS WHOLE, AND IT’S ALL GOOD:  The events in life are reflections of broader pattern that are beyond our ability to see. When bad things seem to happen, it is not that the event is bad of itself. It is that we do not see the wholeness and instead judge the event from our own limited and divided point of view. The negativity produced by our own judgment hurts us and keeps us from experiencing the good.

3.  EVERYTIME WE ACCEPT A NEGATIVE STATE WE COMPROMISE OURSELVES AND INCREASE THE LEVEL OF CONFLICT FOR OURSELVES & EVERYONE WE MEET:  How much effort do we go to in order to make ourselves look good to others ? Do we ever think about what the expression on our face says about us?