dharma

There are two types of cells in your eyes. The ones in the center are called cones, and the ones on the outside, which are more sensitive than the cones, are called rods. Peripheral perception comes from the rods. The rods are colorblind, but they can pick up the etheric.

Of course, the key to serenity is not necessarily in satisfying your ego’s preferences. Rather, it’s in reducing your preferences and absolutes.

So, one of the ideas to remember is that the need to feel secure is only a bad habit. You can feel secure even when you don’t know what will happen next. It’s only a custom of ego that requires you to “need to know.” You don’t! When you become more infinite in your perception, you become more open, and knowing what will happen next becomes less

It’s important to keep one thing in mind: we know only what we can remember at any given point.

First: to get the ego to back off, you have to shove against its comfort zones. So, pick stuff it doesn’t like. If, say, public speaking terrifies you, agree to give a speech. If heights bother you, go parachuting. If the dark bothers you, walk in the forest at night like I did. Each week, devise one thing that you will use to challenge yourself—to

The outcome of any concerted attempt at self-knowledge could be presumed to be a deep understanding of ourselves. But strangely, the real outcome is rather different. It appears that the more closely we explore our minds, the more we start to see how many tricks these organs can play on us – and therefore the more we will appreciate how often we