Saturday, February 4, 2012

Small Self Big Self False Self True Self


If any of you wants to go where I go, you must stop romancing your small self, face your greatest challenge, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you let it go for my sake and for the sake of what the world needs to see and here, you will find your truest self.            --Jesus


The emptiness of self shows itself first in our lack of control over our supposedly fixed 'self.' Anyone who turns inward to meditation or prayer immediately encounters the ever-changing thought stream of mind, the endless ripples of moods and emotions that color each moment. These thought streams and emotions have a life of their own. In meditation we can shift our attention from the sense of everything being consciously tied together as 'my experience' to a more silent, less possessive observation. This silent observation allows us to see the first aspect of emptiness, called selflessness or egolessness.          --Jack Kornfield


‘It is easiest for God to find us when we are not there.'        --Angelus Silesius