Self mastery is the quality of a king.
Sanskrit Vedas (via heartmindawakening)
Be vigilant in your control over the self. If you cannot respond to your will, how can you expect others to respond?
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain (via heartmindspirit)(Source: heartmindawakening)
Fuck bliss.
Bliss is nothing. It’s not relevant. It’s a pretty piece of candy that has lured you away from the real work of waking up. Get it out of your heads. I can’t emphasize this enough. This is right at the very heart of the web of misconception that diverts countless millions of seekers away from their own awakening. This is exactly the kind of narcotic you have to break free of.
Now, pay attention. The way to get something out of your head isn’t to hear some spiritual teacher say it’s bullshit. It’s for you to drag it out and really shine a light on it for yourself. This bliss nonsense is a perfect example. Do you really think that enlightenment is going to be like a permanently extended sexual orgasm? Think about it. Think for yourself. That’s the Golden Rule in this game: Think for yourself.
Enlightenment is not a peak experience. It is not a neverending cosmic orgasm. It is not an altered state of consciousness. It’s not a happily-ever-after fairy tale. It’s just waking up - as simple and as difficult as that. We’ve all been sold on the idea of an everlasting spiritual high that we can never know except in flashes and glimpses of which the mind cannot even retain a memory. That’s the opiate and the masses are sucking it up. Permanent bliss is just heaven repackaged for a slightly hipper crowd.
The larger issue here is how such a bizarre belief found it’s way into your heads in the first place. That should be a pretty scary thought. If that foolish notion was so firmly rooted in your thinking, what else is in there? If you’re thoughts and beliefs aren’t your own, then who are you? You must re-examine your assumptions, and believe me, only a small fraction of them are visible. Unchallenged acceptance can define you and alter the course of your life. For instance, maybe the whole reason you’re on a spiritual quest in the first place is because of the unchallenged belief that this path ends in a permanent state of super-dooper happiness. Maybe you don’t really want to go where this really leads. Maybe you’re just in it for the fairy tale. I would guess that that is true of over ninety-nine percent of all spiritual seekers.
Think for yourself. That’s the real golden rule. Think for yourself. Make it your mantra. Tattoo it on the inside of your eyelids
Jed McKenna, ”Spiritual Enlightenment The Damnedest Thing” (via heartmindspirit)(Source: heartmindawakening)
We can all see how other people’s Belief System makes them blind and ‘stupid’ at times, but we find it very hard to notice how our own BS is doing the same to us. This is what anthropologists call ‘acculturalization.’ Following Gurdjieff, I prefer to call it hypnosis… Every politician knows how to induce hypnosis, and very damned few people on the whole planet know how to de-hypnotize themselves. The world is not governed by facts or logic. It is governed by Belief Systems.
Robert Anton Wilson (via heartmindspirit)(Source: heartmindawakening)
In the spiritual path it doesn’t make any difference if the discomfort arises from you or is imposed upon you by the people you’re with, as long as you greet it with skill, your consciousness will be purified.
Shinzen Young(Source: heartmindawakening)
The universe is a puzzle, life is a problem to be solved, it’s a conundrum, it’s not what it appears to be. There are doors, there are locks and keys, there are levels, and if you get it right, somehow it will give way to something extremely unexpected.
Terence Mckenna (via heartmindspirit)(Source: heartmindawakening)
If you close your eyes, all you actually find are sensations. One thing is happening at a time - the body sitting in a chair is happening; a breeze coming through the window is happening; the crackling of paper is happening; cars are happening … There’s no story. The story that we think is our story is simply a pretence, because always there is only this. The story you’ve listened to about your life is not going anywhere.
Tony Parsons in All There Is(Source: heartmindawakening)
ARTIFICIAL GROUP ELEMENTAL - a large energy field hovering over the heads of individuals in a gathering which has a strong influence on each individual; 1. Energy field is composed of thought energy coming from individuals; field is formed and sustained because of the unity of thoughts and emotions; all minds are focused on one subject, one goal, one concept, or one attitude brought about telepathically by the tone and pitch of the words of the leader or music; elemental becomes recharged as the meeting progresses if the group keeps this unity of emotion and thought; 2. Elemental has an independent existence outside the consciousness of the thinkers and is capable of influencing each person individually to react emotionally in a manner one could not or would not be capable of individually away from the group; 3. Elemental disperses as rapidly as it is formed when the group is dismissed as the crowd no longer has continuity of existence; 4. e.g., individuals at a concert frequently weep because the oneness, joy and awe become overwhelming; young adults at a rock festival scream and tear off clothing because the music is choreographed to tune into these levels of the brain and the massness of feelings thrust them into this: soldiers attend military drills frequently in the sameness of uniform; this, along with the saluting and music reinforces their patriotism; destructive-brainwashing cult members meet daily or bi-daily to engage in repetitious verbiage and phrase shouting to keep the cult-programming” at an emotional peak. [cf. ELEMENTAL, MASS HYPNOSIS, DESTRUCTIVE-BRAINWASHING CULTS].
The Donning International Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary by June G. Beltzer, Ph.D.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This is the need we may call self-actualization … referring to a person’s desire for fulfillment, namely to the tendency to become actually what we are potentially.
Abraham Maslow (via heartmindspirit)(Source: heartmindawakening)
