2 posts tagged “ken wilber”
Came across these today, and I think they apply to what I've currently been going through.
"The ego adopts the viewpoint of matter, and therefore is constantly
trapped by matter—trapped and tortured by the physics of pain. But
pain, too, arises in your consciousness, and you can either be in pain,
or find pain in you, so that you surround pain, are bigger than pain,
transcend pain, as you rest in the vast expanse of pure Emptiness that
you deeply and truly are."
-Ken Wilber, One Taste
"You who feel threatened by this changing world, its twists of fortune and its bitter jests, its brief relationships and all the “gifts” it merely lends to take away again; attend this lesson well. The world provides no safety. It is rooted in attack, and all its “gifts” of seeming safety are illusory deceptions. It attacks, and then attacks again. No peace of mind is possible where danger threatens thus.
Defenses are the costliest of all the prices which the ego would exact. In them lies madness in a form so grim that hope of sanity seems but to be an idle dream, beyond the possible. The sense of threat the world encourages is so much deeper, and so far beyond the frenzy and intensity of which you can conceive, that you have no idea of all the devastation it has wrought…You are its slave. You know not what you do, in fear of it. You do not understand how much you have been made to sacrifice, who feel its iron grip upon your heart. You do not realize what you have done to sabotage the holy peace of God by your defensiveness. For you behold the Son of God as but a victim to attack by fantasies, by dreams, and by illusions he has made; yet helpless in their presence, needful only of defense by still more fantasies, and dreams by which illusions of his safety comfort him."
-ACIM
