Self-Comparison
Comparing yourself to another person is an act of violence. It is an act of self harm. Even if you compare yourself favorably to one person or group of people, you are building a house of cards that will collapse as you try to stand on it. Self-comparisons are hard to avoid. If we do not compare ourselves to others, others will compare themselves to us. They will lump us into categories, according to their particular expression of ignorance. Because comparing ourselves to each other is so common and so destructive, we have to learn how to use all the comparisons to expose our egos and set us free.
To be free from our ego we become humble. If we think we are big, we look at a mountain. If we think we are small we look at a mouse. If we think we are smart, we think about solving world hunger. If we think we are stupid, we have no business thinking at all. When we think about all the comparisons we can make, we see that it is a futile game that our ego plays, trying to figure out which is prettier, a flower or a sunset.
When we catch ourselves bringing ourselves down or building ourselves up by comparing ourselves to others, we can remember that we are playing an ego trick, trying to pretend that we are moonbeams or pimples. When we step out of the comparison game, we become humble. When people put us into their categories, we greet their confusion with compassion. We no longer have to pretend that we are something more or less that we are.
Humble is neutral. It is greatness, without being great. Understanding our basic humility, helps us to cut through our confusion. We don’t have to make ourselves out to be anything other than we are. What we are is beyond compare.
In our experience, only when we bring psychological and spiritual work together is true transformation possible. This synthesis truly enhances deep and lasting growth. With this approach we discover that every emotional and psychological issue is actually a potential doorway to grounded and embodied awakening. Conversely, spiritual experiences of our True Nature give insight into and freedom from the way our personality structure habitually functions. This approach brings the emergence of the relaxed human being that lives and participates fully in this world through a perception of awakened consciousness….a person which is in the world and yet is not of it. Thus true awakening needs psychology and true psychology needs the recognition of awakened consciousness for real transformation and integration to happen. – http://www.workingwithpeopletrainings.com/about
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.
Rumi (via hedonistespirituelle)
For those of you who just want a body conditioning, what we call toning, in every part – your muscles, your bones, your organs, every part of you – 60 seconds is all it takes. It’s 60 seconds of awareness of your physical being. Awareness that you are a physical being. You’re not your body, but you’re in a body. That’s all it takes, and there’s no stress in it. There’s no having to think about different parts of your body. It’s just, “I exist in a body.” And then you feel your whole body as an observer, 60 seconds of I Am awareness in the physical body. That’s all it takes. You start doing this a few times and suddenly you’re going to realize that there is some new communication, magic happening with your body. It’s suddenly going to start waking up.
Adamus Saint Germain (via cosmicportal)
As above, so below
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
Herman Hesse (via palingenesis144)
