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You know, it feels like you wrote a little play in your head, then played all the parts and got to the end where you’re abandoned, and that was that. But no one else had the chance to say anything before you acted it all out.
“If the mind can hear itself, it can make changes. Self-judgment may be among its favorite foods, but that appetite has to be recognized before it can be modified. The moment the mind identifies itself as a predator, it has committed to becoming an ally. The mind can create chronic problems for the human, but it can offer miraculous solutions as well. It has the ability to imagine. We routinely imagine conversations that haven’t happened. We imagine alternate realities and phenomena yet to be discovered. We reimagine the past and fantasize about the future. We imagine gods and demons. We imagine horrors and wonders.”
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice “who we are” until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be.”
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Love would determine everything, as it always has. My heart is full, even now.”
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“We can externalize all our biggest demons, we can scare ourselves with images of devils and ghouls—or we can look inward, listen, and recognize the voice of knowledge that lives and speaks to us on a constant basis. That voice can sound very scary. We are not accustomed to hearing ourselves, and so we rarely acknowledge the messages of selfishness and cruelty that we deliver on a daily basis. It’s an act of self-love to pay attention to what we think, and to modify that internal conversation.”
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“We are life. We are the result of life’s power, and we are the channels through which that power courses. We want truth, but we reach for more knowledge instead—and then we must defend what we believe. Knowledge makes a small impression on the world compared to the power of truth—even when it serves life, elevating awareness and creating dreams of impeccability. How can knowledge serve better? How can we stop it from doing harm and creating conflict? First, we can see knowledge for what it is—all the agreements we make about reality—and get some perspective. Then we can listen to ourselves. We can modify both our thinking and our emotional attachment to thought. We can win the war in our heads, one that has gone on long enough. We can nurture a belief in ourselves and drift away from the crowd.”
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
― The Toltec Art of Life and Death
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