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Title: Self-Importance
Post by: Firestarter on February 20, 2010, 11:53:32 AM
"The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be free. " - Adyashanti.
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Michael on February 20, 2010, 02:22:41 PM
that's pithy
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Firestarter on February 20, 2010, 03:47:32 PM
that's pithy

You always make me have to pull out the online dictionary :)
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Michael on February 21, 2010, 01:08:27 AM
and the new words get scratched across your old palimpsestic brain.
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Ke-ke wan on February 21, 2010, 01:19:22 AM
;-)
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Firestarter on February 21, 2010, 03:24:10 AM
and the new words get scratched across your old palimpsestic brain.

Another word Ive never heard, gee you're full of them, arent you? :D
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Michael on February 21, 2010, 12:13:00 PM
"The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be free. " - Adyashanti.


that's pithy
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Muffin on February 21, 2010, 12:31:05 PM
that's pithy

It's déjà vu all over again.
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Firestarter on February 22, 2010, 04:40:24 AM
that's pithy

I take it you really like the quote :)
Title: Re: Self-Importance
Post by: Elspeth on February 22, 2010, 10:19:26 PM
Yes,
       I think that sometimes there is a creative journey. It starts like a western, where one rides ones narrative steed -( that is to say ones story), onto the prairies of inspiration. All is sweet water and following breeze until the prairie starts to change. That is when authors start to say that their characters have gone awol, that they no longer know where the story is headed, or whether inspiration will return again. They are by turns frustrated, angry, hurt and desperate. At last they wake up in a desert. It is like the night of the soul - it is a silent furnace where the ego falls from its horse and lies like a fish, gasping in terror, suddenly aware that it will surely die. But then perhaps something else comes striding across the burning floor and stands shimmering against the sky, it is able to take that instrument, that gasping soul which now hopes only for transcendance - and here is the deal - those characters are not my characters any more, that ending will be whatever ending emerges, the journey continues on foot and now its us - sometimes the prairie, sometimes the desert....

OK too many movies....