Sublime

Attachment—how is an attachment formed? First comes the contact with something that gives you pleasure: a car, an attractively advertised modern appliance, a word of praise, a person’s company. Then comes the desire to hold on to it, to repeat the gratifying sensation that this thing or person caused you. Finally comes the conviction that you will

The center of our conscious life is called ego. It has two concurrent characteristics: It is functional in that it is the strong grounded activating principle by which we make intellectual assessments and judgments, show feelings appropriately, and relate skillfully to other people. It can also be neurotic when it becomes attached, addicted, dualis

It involves feeling your fear of emptiness and loneliness, your yearning for love, and your denial of death.

But if you allow yourself to fully incarnate these feelings of fear, need, and emptiness—if you open as them, breathe as them, and allow your body to be moved as them—then you allow yourself to live as the full power of love.

If you cultivate the capacity to drop into your core emotional truth at any moment, you will be unshakeable in your authenticity, and others will feel

Once we understand that love is our true identity, we realize that the skill of learning to love is mostly an undoing of the ego obstructions that have gradually overlaid our natural tendency toward loving. This means letting go of our ego entitlements and inflations. We then look for all the practices that can help that happen, especially those th