A quote by John Welwood

However, the spiritual problem comes when we seek to repress what is negative or vulnerable in us, to deny or live “above” our mortality, fallibility, negativity, or pain.

When we have learned all the tricks and answers of the spiritual game, we automatically try to imitate spirituality, since real involvement would require the complete elimination of ego, and actually the last thing we want to do is to give up the ego completely.

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

the most difficult obstacle that often stands in the way of an individual expanding their consciousness is their own logical mind.

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

Inherent in the view of enlightened relativity is the understanding that spiritual insight is only as relevant to our human lives as our ability to embody it in our humanity and everyday living and relating. If we imagine that spiritual awakening is about having a powerful experience that we put in our pocket and then go on with our life with a sen