Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man

The best thing to do is to understand it, because understanding, or the attempt to understand, is the attunement to Essence, regardless of what it is you understand. The desire for understanding, the understanding itself, and the result of understanding are Essence. Do whatever is needed to understand your mind while remaining present.

The Diamond Approach is following the threads from the suffering in our lives all the way back to Essence.

honey in the heart.

Noble suffering, ultimately, is really nothing but the sacrifice of the unconscious, so that the Personal Essence can sit on the throne of truth, wearing the robe of peace.

must leap, and the essential knowledge will be there.

With Essence, instead of experiencing anger, you experience Strength.

Letting go of the old for something new to develop. AH: Exactly.

As long as there’s a part of you that wants to go somewhere or finds another part unacceptable, there is no freedom.

Our normal, mental memory can’t remember the state of Essence.

You say, “I want to grow,” and in your mind, growing means becoming a bigger, happier, more colorful larva.