A quote by John Welwood

With spiritual bypass, we turn to the absolute as a way to avoid the relative and use meditation or any spiritual teachings to avoid feeling pain or discomfort within or around us. If anger arises, we might ignore or dismiss our feelings by trying to force a sense of calm, oneness, or even an insistence that if we were truly spiritual, we would nev

Emotional bypassing is when you intentionally use the witnessing state as a means to purposefully avoid feeling or even noticing painful emotions. It’s a spiritual form of being in emotional denial. The true witnessing state is both a freedom from being held captive by whatever you are experiencing and a freedom to experience whatever experience yo

SELF-DECEPTION is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality.

The shadow side of spiritual teachings is that the mind can easily use them to deny reality—and then deny that it is denying reality! Real spirituality has nothing to do with this kind of denial. Real spirituality is the end of denial. And we come out of denial totally when we simply admit the truth of this moment, however painful that admission ma