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,

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

True growth involves the capacity to feel into, as, and through your emotions, exactly as they are, without trying to make them go away or pretend they don’t exist. Feel fully and open.

To the extent that you close to your deepest desire and opt for security, you feel disempowered. Open deeply, and you are free.