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Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on
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“The important thing, therefore, is to be aware from moment to moment without accumulating the experience which awareness brings; because, the moment you accumulate, you are aware only according to that accumulation, according to that pattern, according to that experience. That is your awareness is conditioned by your accumulation and therefore there is no longer observation but merely translation. Where there is translation, there is choice, and choice creates conflict; in conflict there can be no understanding.”
― The First and Last Freedom
― The First and Last Freedom
“That is the difficulty, because most of us are incapable of being passively aware, letting the problem tell the story without our interpreting it. We do not know how to look at a problem dispassionately. We are not capable of it, unfortunately, because we want a result from the problem, we want an answer, we are looking to an end; or we try to translate the problem according to our pleasure or pain; or we have an answer already on how to deal with the problem.”
― The First and Last Freedom
― The First and Last Freedom
“identify yourself with something greater. That desire to identify yourself with something greater is the desire for power. Relationship”
― The First and Last Freedom
― The First and Last Freedom
“But the very resistance to conflict is itself a form of conflict. You are spending your energy in resisting conflict in the form of what you call greed, envy or violence but your mind is still in conflict, so it is important to see the falseness of the process of depending on time as a means of overcoming violence and thereby be free of that process. Then you are able to be what you are: a psychological disturbance which is violence itself”
― The First and Last Freedom
― The First and Last Freedom
“The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.”
― The First and Last Freedom
― The First and Last Freedom
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