This waking field which is the basis of all experience is not improved by practice nor is it diminished by delusion, yet unless it recognizes itself the self-wound wheel will whirl without end.
Ah, well.
Your fantasies about another are never actually about that person. They are actually about you, your desires, wishes, unmet needs projected onto that person, continual stories where that person is not really a character, but a prop.
Oyler then gave us the following exercise: “Think about something that you've read or watched recently, and try to describe it objectively to someone who's never heard of it.” We did it twice: first with something we loved, and then with something we hated. The point of the exercise, Oyler stressed, was to not reveal our subjective impression of... See more
And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are a testament that I can love deeply and live deeply and be cut, or even gouged, and that I can heal and continue to live and continue to love. And the scar tissue is stronger than the original flesh ever was. Scars are a testament to life.
People who are seeped into their own projections suckkkkkk. They’re just like the reactive dog always barking at the ghosts he himself hallucinates. And, furthermore, they dress you always with the garments of their own mind: they can never SEE you, only their reflection