
Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man

The personality doesn’t know what else to do if it doesn’t do these two things. “If I don’t try to get something good or get away from something bad, what else is there?”
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
That’s exactly the thought I had after the session with WILLEM when he told me about the fact that it looks like when I do talk sessions with IFS it seems like it is in order to feel better, but then I am likely to push away bad things and move only towards pleasure. Well, he didn’t say it exactly like that but it was something in that vein.
the universal levels of essential reality where the beauty, fulfillment, and possibility are beyond human imagination.
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
Then, if you allow yourself to feel the deficiency, the emptiness, you may find the essential part of you that will fill the hole from the inside, once and for all.
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
Our normal, mental memory can’t remember the state of Essence.
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
when you believe otherwise—the most important thing is to make a great effort to disidentify from the feelings when you are feeling judgmental, opposed to the Work, or preferring something else. You need to disidentify and understand what is happening because it is during those very times that you are trying to defend against something very importa
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You say, “I want to stay the way I am, but I want to be happy.” Well, maybe that’s not possible. Maybe part of the character of this person you are now is unhappy.
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
You see, if you are an impeccable warrior and you have arrived at essential certainty, indulgences don’t come back.
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
But Zen was too hard, too slow. Only one in ten thousand students makes it through the Zen approach, and then only after sitting and staring at a wall ten hours a day for years. No excitement, nothing. If you can tolerate sitting for maybe twenty years and let all the resistances move
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matter of getting better or becoming a more perfect person.