He also learns about our simultaneous spiritual existence within the Spiritual Dimension and the reasons why we choose to experience negative emotions in life. In his numerous conversations with Old Soul, Rikki is given important lessons about fate and free will.
He learns about love, how love develops between lovers, and his own sexual orientation. He also learns about the negative emotions, such as; fear, anxiety, anger, depression, guilt, power and hate, and the circumstances that may lead people to perform evil acts, and ways to prevent that from happening.
Rikki's inspirational backstory of coming to terms with his own sexuality is woven into the storyline of this book, with the intent to motivate the reader to find purpose and meaning in their soul's own adventure through life.
Note: This is a revised and an expanded 2nd edition of Dr. Get BOOK. Following an inner prompting beyond all reason, the last Confessor will wager everything on a final desperate gambit, and in so doing, she will change the world forever. My intention was to give a heartfelt gift to my mother; it also turned out to be one of the greatest gifts I gave to myself.
By focusing on the abundance of small acts of love from my mother, many grudges and issues I previously replayed over and over in my mind throughout my life washed away in an ocean of tears. Author : Susan Hill Publisher: Lulu. A combination of book 1 with new poems. A stunning and soul searching book of poetry in the form of parables. You will find answers to what and who YOU are.
You will find an awareness that you are loved. Many characters inhabit this book. Some loving some cruel. The word images will make you laugh or cry or ponder your destiny. Symbolism in words about greed,envy,lust passion and pain envelope you. The poems lead you on a spiritual journey from the beginnings of awareness to fulfillment in God Almighty and Jesus Christ This book is not slushy or sentimental.
But powerfull and modern. Biblical yet very human. Wonderful for christian or non. Someone of any faith or none. Easy language but with powerfull concepts. Superb for helping in counselling and healing emotions. Superb for self awareness and self development. Study guide incorporated also original illustrations. Silvere van den Broek, O. The Spiritual Legacy of Sr. Our Lord's revelations to a Poor Clare nun about His love for us and how we should live to please Him.
Explains the "Vow of Victim" and the delicate nuances of fraternal charity--especially the fruitful effects of kindness; which enables souls to open themselves to the love God asks of them. Includes a brief life story of Sr.
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Soups improve You can also. When will I get to eat? At one point, after a redhead appears on the show, your couch-mate starts mumbling about an ex-spouse and a painful divorce. Then the yelling starts—just as though the ex- spouse were in the room with you! Then it stops, just as suddenly as it started. At this point, you find yourself hugging the far corner of the couch in a desperate attempt to get as far away from this disturbed person as you possibly can.
Will you dare to do this experiment? Just try to get to know what you live with inside by externalizing the voice. Give it a body and put it out there in the world just like everybody else.
Let it be a person who says on the outside exactly what the voice of your mind says inside. Now make that person your best friend. After all, how many friends do you spend all of your time with and pay absolute attention to every word they say? How would you relate to a person who opened their mouth to say everything your mental voice says?
After a very short period of time, you would tell them to leave and never come back. No matter how much trouble it causes, you listen.
What should I do? But you feel you owe the voice an answer. After seeing how often this person changed their mind, how conflicted they were on so many subjects, and how emotionally overreactive they tended to be, would you ever ask them for relationship or financial advice?
As amazing as it seems, you do just that every moment of your life. Have you ever bothered to check its credentials? How many times has that voice been totally wrong? I can feel it coming; I just know it. It was definitely a surprise to you, since you completely forgot the anniversary. What if you had hired a relationship advisor who had given you that terrible advice? They had completely misread the entire situation.
Had you listened to the advisor, you never would have picked up the phone. How could you ever trust their advice again after seeing how wrong they were? Well, are you going to fire your inner roommate? After all, its advice and analysis of the situation were totally wrong.
Is that rational? How many times has that voice been wrong about what was going on or what will be going on? Now the question becomes, how do you get rid of this inner troublemaker? You will now have a real use for them. You will be relieved to know that you are not the first person to have this problem. There are those who have gone before you who found themselves in the same situation. Many of them looked for guidance from those who had mastered this field of knowledge.
They were given teachings and techniques, such as yoga, which were created to help in this process. Yoga is not really about getting your body healthy, although it does that too.
Yoga is about the knowledge that will help you out of your predicament, the knowledge that can free you. These practices are what you do with your time in order to free yourself from yourself. You will eventually catch on that you have to distance yourself from your psyche. Your will is stronger than the habit of listening to that voice. Your will is supreme over all of this. If you want to free yourself, you must first become conscious enough to understand your predicament.
Then you must commit yourself to the inner work of freedom. You do this as though your life depended on it, because it does. As it is right now, your life is not your own; it belongs to your inner roommate, the psyche. You have to take it back. Stand firm in the seat of the witness and release the hold that the habitual mind has on you.
This is your life—reclaim it. Who sees when I see? Who hears when I hear? Who knows that I am aware? Who am I? Make believe that you and I are having a conversation. You tell them your name, for example, Sally Smith. Is that who you are—a collection of letters?
Is that who sees when you see? But then, who are you? My label is Sally Smith. I was born in in New York. I started dating in the ninth grade, and my first boyfriend was Joe. That is who I am. So you contemplate this, and you realize that never in your life have you asked yourself that question and really meant it. That is what Ramana Maharshi was asking. I am five foot six and I weigh pounds, and here I am. So which are you?
Are you the four foot six person or are you the five foot six person? You told me you were. Perhaps we need to step back for a moment to ask some exploratory questions before returning to the core question. What you looked at has changed; but what about you, the one who is looking? You have to contemplate this very carefully. Who dreams? What does it mean to dream? Does the same you who is reading these words also look in the mirror and watch the dreams?
When you awake, you know you saw the dream. There is a continuity of conscious awareness of being. Ramana Maharshi was just asking some very simple questions: Who sees when you see?
Who hears when you hear? Who watches the dreams? Who looks at the image in the mirror? Who is it that is having all these experiences? We can very easily generalize by saying that if you are the one who is looking at something, then that something is not you. That was easy. But who are you? You just have to pay attention and realize that you would still be in there experiencing feelings even if all the outside objects disappeared. Imagine how much fear you would feel.
You might also feel frustration, and even anger. But who would be feeling these things? Would you still be looking at the dog with the same intensity of focus? Of course not. All of your attention can very quickly become absorbed in your emotions. But who feels the fear? Who feels love when you feel love? In essence, inside and outside objects compete for your attention.
You are in there having both inner and outer experiences— but who are you? Eventually, you will begin to realize that the outside world and the flow of inner emotions come and go. But you, the one who experiences these things, remain consciously aware of whatever passes before you. But where are you? Maybe we can find you in your thoughts. The question is, who is using the mind to form thoughts and then manipulate them into ideas and judgments?
Does this experiencer of thoughts exist even when thoughts are not present? You are very aware of your presence of being, your sense of existence, without the help of thoughts. When you go into deep meditation, for example, the thoughts stop. I was in a place of complete peace, harmony, and quiet. Thoughts can stop, and they can also get extremely noisy. Sometimes you have many more thoughts than other times. Who is noticing these thoughts? People struggle with thoughts all the time. Who is it that is aware of the thoughts, and who is it that struggles with them?
Again, you have a subject-object relationship with your thoughts. You are the subject, and thoughts are just another object you can be aware of. You are not your thoughts. You are simply aware of your thoughts. These outer and inner objects come and go and I experience them. They can be quiet or noisy, happy or sad. But who am I? Who is having all these physical, emotional, and mental experiences?
This is done by letting go of the experiences and noticing who is left. You will begin to notice who is experiencing the experience. Eventually, you will get to a point within yourself where you realize that you, the experiencer, have a certain quality. And that quality is awareness, consciousness, an intuitive sense of existence.
You exist regardless, thoughts or no thoughts. You are effortlessly aware of all the objects that are within the scope of your vision, both near and far away. Without moving your head or eyes, you perceive all the intricate detail of what you immediately see. Look at all the colors, the variations of light, the grain of wood furniture, the architecture of buildings, and the variations of bark and leaves on trees. Notice that you take all this in at once, without having to think about it.
No thoughts are necessary; you just see it. Now try to use thoughts to isolate, label, and describe all the intricate detail of what you see. How long would it take your mental voice to describe all that detail to you, versus the instantaneous snapshot of consciousness just seeing?
Consciousness is the highest word you will ever utter. There is nothing higher or deeper than consciousness. Consciousness is pure awareness. But what is awareness? Now make believe the piano ceases to exist in your world.
Would you have a major problem with that? Are you still okay? Can you handle it? Just turn it off. How are you doing now? And without awareness of being, or consciousness, there is nothing. Are there objects? Who knows? If no one is aware of the objects, their existence or nonexistence becomes completely irrelevant. If you are conscious, however, there can be nothing in front of you but you are fully aware that there is nothing. From back in here somewhere, I look out, and I am aware of the events, thoughts, and emotions that pass before me.
You live in the seat of consciousness. A true spiritual being lives there, without effort and without intent. Just as you effortlessly look outside and see all that you see, you will eventually sit far enough back inside to see all your thoughts and emotions, as well as outer form. All of these objects are in front of you. The thoughts are closer in, the emotions are a little further away, and form is way out there. Behind it all, there you are.
At each stage of your life you have seen different thoughts, emotions, and objects pass before you. But you have always been the conscious receiver of all that was.
Now you are in your center of consciousness. You are behind everything, just watching. That is your true home. But take the center of awareness away, and there is nothing. That center is the seat of Self. From that seat, you are aware that there are thoughts, emotions, and a world coming in through your senses. The great mystery begins once you take that seat deep within. Kosho Yamamoto This distinction is exactly the difference between being aware that you are aware in your daily life, and not being aware that you are aware.
When you are an aware being, you no longer become completely immersed in the events around you. Instead, you remain inwardly aware that you are the one who is experiencing both the events and the corresponding thoughts and emotions. When a thought is created in this state of awareness, instead of getting lost in it, you remain aware that you are the one who is thinking the thought.
You are lucid. This raises some very interesting questions. If you are the indwelling being who is experiencing all this, then why do these different levels of perception exist? When you are seated in the awareness of Self, you are lucid. Where are you when you are not seated deeply enough inside the Self to be the conscious experiencer of all you are experiencing?
The essence of consciousness is awareness, and awareness has the ability to become more aware of one thing and less aware of something else. In other words, it has the ability to focus itself on certain objects. It means focus your consciousness on one place. Teachers figure you know how to do that. Who taught you how to do that? What class in high school taught you how to take your consciousness and move it somewhere in order to focus on something? Nobody taught you this.
It was intuitive and natural. You probably went through grade school, high school, and college without anyone discussing the nature of consciousness. Fortunately, the nature of consciousness has been studied very closely in deep teachings such as yoga. In fact, the ancient teachings of yoga are all about consciousness. The best way to learn about consciousness is through your own direct experience.
For example, you know very well that your consciousness can be aware of a wide field of objects, or it can be so focused on one object that you are unaware of anything else. This is what happens when you get lost in thought. It happens all the time. You just start thinking about something else.
Outside objects or mental thoughts can catch your attention at any time. The key is that consciousness has the ability to concentrate on different things. The subject, consciousness, has the ability to selectively focus awareness on specific objects. If you step back, you will clearly see that objects are constantly passing before you at all three levels: mental, emotional, and physical. It is no longer aware that it is aware of the object; it just becomes object-conscious. When you concentrate on the world of the physical senses, it draws you in.
Then your emotional and mental reactions draw you in further. You have an underlying pattern of thoughts that goes on around you all the time. This pattern of thoughts stays pretty much the same. You are as familiar and comfortable with your normal thought patterns as you are with the living space of your home.
You also have emotions that are your norm: a certain amount of fear, a certain amount of love, and a certain amount of insecurity. You know that if certain things happen, one or more of these emotions will flare up and dominate your awareness.
Then, eventually, they will settle back down to the norm. You know this so well that you are very busy inside making sure nothing happens to create these disturbances.
That is the normal state for most people. When you are in this lost state, you get so totally absorbed in the objects of thoughts, feelings, and the senses, that you forget the subject. Right now, you are sitting inside the center of consciousness watching your personal TV show.
All of your senses draw you in—sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch—as well as your feelings and your thoughts. But you are really sitting quietly inside looking out at all these objects. Just as the sun does not leave its position in the sky to illuminate objects with its radiating light, so consciousness does not leave its center to project awareness onto the objects of form, thoughts, and emotions. Then notice that you are aware of that thought.
That is your seat of centered consciousness. When you go to a movie, you let yourself get drawn in. With a movie you use two senses: seeing and hearing. Instead of getting drawn into the magical world of the movie, you would remain very aware that you were sitting in a theater and that something was wrong. You forget your personal thoughts and emotions, and your consciousness gets pulled into the film. In fact, with an engaging film, you may go for the full two hours without any awareness of yourself.
What will happen when your experience of a movie includes smell and taste? You would surely get caught in that one. The sensory input has doubled and therefore the number of objects drawing on your consciousness has also doubled. But then again, not necessarily. This occurs despite the fact that your five senses are still sending you all these movie messages.
This can only happen because your thoughts can still occur independently of the movie. They provide an alternative place for the consciousness to focus. Should I ask her to marry me? Now we have the full dimension of the experience: five physical senses, plus thoughts and emotions.
Imagine going to that movie and getting plugged in. Careful, that would be the end of you as you know yourself. There would be no object of consciousness that is not synchronized with the experience. Any place your awareness falls would be part of the movie. I want to leave. Now you are completely lost. How will you ever get out? As scary as it sounds, that is your predicament in life. The thoughts and the emotions move in accordance with the sights and the sounds.
It all comes in, and your consciousness gets totally absorbed in it. That is what it means to be lost. All these messages come back to one spot. Then the consciousness, which is capable of being aware of anything, makes the mistake of focusing on that one spot too closely. When the consciousness gets sucked in, it no longer knows itself as itself. It knows itself as the objects it is experiencing.
In other words, you perceive yourself as these objects. You think you are the sum of your learned experiences. That is what you would think when you go to one of these advanced movies. At such a movie, you would first get to select which character you want to be. The button had better be on a timer! You, as you currently know yourself, are no longer there. The only aspect of your being that remains the same is the consciousness that is aware of these objects. It is the same center of awareness that was aware of your old set of thoughts, emotions, and sensory input.
Now someone turns off the movie. All the thoughts match. All the emotions match. Everything looks like, smells like, tastes like, and feels like it did before. It is all just objects of consciousness, and you are the consciousness.
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