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Getting Real
“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.” — Basil Rathbone
Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
― Adyashanti
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
— May Sarton
“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.” ~ Ram Dass
We have seen in study after study that compulsive positive thinkers are more likely to develop disease and less likely to survive. Genuine positive thinking — or, more deeply, positive being — empowers us to know that we have nothing to fear from truth. “Health is not just a matter of thinking happy thoughts,” writes the molecular researcher…
