The Pursuit
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The Pursuit
The goal of life is to escape the landscape of illusions that you were born into. After you escape, there are two roads to take. Either you become a tyrant, seek power in the same system you escape, and control others with your own illusions … Or, you help others escape too.
“Who am I?” We see now that this is a very deep question. Ask it ceaselessly, constantly. Ask it and you will notice that you are the answer. There is no intellectual answer—you are the answer. Be the answer, and everything will change.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
WHAT MUST I DO?
Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
You are struggling to become something, and that something is part of yourself. The ideal is your own projection.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
The deepening of the interest in stage two becomes almost an obsession with the nature of identity. We start to pour more and more of our energy into asking, “Who am I?” or “What is consciousness?” or “What was my face before my parents were born?” or “Where does suffering end?” At some point, we become so absorbed in the inquiry that we lose the s
... See moreAngelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
1. Inner Life & Identity (Self-in-Context)
What part of me feels most alive or most distant today?
What assumptions about myself did I notice, reinforce, or challenge?
Where am I performing, and where am I simply being?
What part of me wants to be seen—but hasn’t yet found the words?
What feels like “mine,” and what feels inherited or borrowed?
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