The Process Of Becoming Who You Will

The Process Of Becoming Who You Will Be Begins First With The Total Acceptance Of Who You Are.

The Present Moment Is Changing So Fast That We Often Do Not Notice Its Existence At All. Every Moment Of Mind Is Like A Series Of Pictures Passing Through A Projector. Some Of The Pictures Come From Sense Impressions. Others Come From Memories Of Past Experiences Or From Fantasies Of The Future.

You Can Only Have Bliss If You Don't Chase It.

Prayer And Contemplation Are Both Exercises In Concentration. The Normal Deluge Of Conscious Thought Is Restricted And The Mind Is Brought To One Conscious Area Of Operation. The Results Are Those You Find In Any Concentrative Practice: Deep Calm, A Physiological Slowing Of The Metabolism And A Sense Of Peace And Wellbeing

We Usually Do Not Look Into What Is Really There In Front Of Us. We See Life Through A Screen Of Thoughts And Concepts, And We Mistake Those Mental Objects For Reality. We Get So Caught Up In This Endless Thought-stream That Reality Flows By Unnoticed. We Spend Our Time Engrossed In Activity, Caught Up In An Eternal Flight From Pain And Unpleasantness. We Spend Our Energies Trying To Make Ourselves Feel Better, Trying To Bury Our Fears. We Are Endlessly Seeking Security. Meanwhile, The World Of Real Experience Flows By Untouched And Untasted.