Posted by Linda Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. Do not try to drive pain away by pretending that it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you. It is easy to keep things at a distance; it is hard to be naturally beyond them. To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not be for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate.
on 7/1/2005, 6:35 am
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I happened onto a website with all kinds of inspired quotes about cutting through denial. They helped to inspire me about this kind of work, so I'm sharing a few of them :)
Patanjali
c. 200-150 BCE, Indian Philosopher, Writer
Sanskrit Saying
Jesus of Nazareth
c. 5-38 CE, Jewish Prophet, Mystic, Founder of Christianity
in The Gospel of Thomas
Bunan
1603-1676, Japanese Gatekeeper, Zen Master
Henri-Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Writer
Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941, Indian Poet, Dramatist, Essayist, 1913 Nobel Laureate
Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychologist, Theorist
Aion
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