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Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.
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Glenn Goodrich added 4mo ago
Anytime you renounce something, you are tied forever to the thing you renounce.
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Glenn Goodrich added 4mo ago
So you must “receive” your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them. Has nobody ever told you this? When you renounce something, you’re tied to it. The only way to get out of this is to see through it. Don’t renounce it, see through it. Understand its true value and you won’t need to renounce it; it will just drop from your hands.
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Benyamin Elias added 8mo ago
Very well, when you renounce something, you’re stuck to it forever. When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.
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Benyamin Elias added 8mo ago
We never feel grief when we lose something that we have allowed to be free, that we have never attempted to possess. Grief is a sign that I made my happiness depend on this thing or person, at least to some extent. We’re so accustomed to hear the opposite of this that what I say sounds inhuman, doesn’t it?
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Philip Powis added 1mo ago
“I dare not stop to think, because if I did, I wouldn’t know how to get started again.”
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Glenn Goodrich added 4mo ago
The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new.
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Glenn Goodrich added 4mo ago
Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you’re living in an illusion. There’s something seriously wrong with you. You’re not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? “He is to blame, she is to blame. She’s got to change.” No! The world’s all right. The one who has
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Philip Powis added 1mo ago
Put this program into action, a thousand times: (a) identify the negative feelings in you; (b) understand that they are in you, not in the world, not in external reality; (c) do not see them as an essential part of “I”;
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Philip Powis added 1mo ago