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“Only when the slumbering ego perceives itself, not as a body, but as a free soul, a son of God residing in and working through the body, can it rightfully and lawfully demand its own divine rights. The”
― Whispers from Eternity: A Book of Answered Prayers
― Whispers from Eternity: A Book of Answered Prayers
“The fundamental cure for all human ills is everywhere one and the same: to raise one’s consciousness. In”
― Whispers from Eternity: A Book of Answered Prayers
― Whispers from Eternity: A Book of Answered Prayers
“People who feel empty never heal by merging with another incomplete person. On the contrary, two broken-winged birds coupled into one make for clumsy flight. No amount of patience will help it fly; and, ultimately, each must be pried from the other, and wounds separately splinted. The”
― Love's Executioner
― Love's Executioner
“Whether one becomes a saint or a sinner is to a great extent determined by the company he keeps.”
― The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda
― The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda
“One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety. Fusion eradicates anxiety in a radical fashion—by eliminating self-awareness. The person who has fallen in love, and entered a blissful state of merger, is not self-reflective because the questioning lonely I (and the attendant anxiety of isolation) dissolve into the we. Thus one sheds anxiety but loses oneself. This is precisely why therapists do not like to treat a patient who has fallen in love. Therapy and a state of love-merger are incompatible because therapeutic work requires a questioning self-awareness and an anxiety that will ultimately serve as guide to internal conflicts. Furthermore,”
― Love's Executioner
― Love's Executioner
Octavian Sbarna’s 2024 Year in Books
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