Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

If you work on yourself, there will come a time when you fully understand your heart.

When you become one integrated seer—the single witness watching all these different things pass by inside—you are centered. You are clear. You are free.

a disturbance in the force.

this is a reliance on the energy flowing between your hearts that is feeding you both energetically.

Energy is power, and when it hits the resistance of your will it is forced to circle around itself. That’s the only way energy can stay in one place. The circle is such a powerful form in creation. It allows something to keep moving yet stay stationary. This is how samskaras are formed.

The logical questions become: Why are you storing all this stuff inside you? And if you’re going to store stuff inside, why not make it nice stuff?

You just need to deeply relax and stop fighting with yourself. At that point something amazing is going to happen: All the energy that was pulling you down and out changes direction. It begins to lift you in and up. This is the transmutation of the energy, and it is real. As liberation becomes the meaning of your life, this inner process will step

Notice your surroundings coming in through your senses, your thoughts passing through your mind, and any emotions that arise in your heart creating feelings of comfort or discomfort within. These three inner experiences are the arena in which your consciousness plays the game of life on planet Earth.

You will at some point realize that’s all you’ve done your entire life—try to be okay.

One of the most amazing things you will ever realize is that the moment in front of you is not bothering you—you are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you. It’s not personal—you are making it personal. There are countless moments unfolding in the universe at any given time, and your relationship to all of them is exactly the same: you