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| | Selected quotes from
"Diamond Heart Book Four"
by A.H. Almaas
Almaas Publications © 1997 Diamond Books |
"the thickness, the dullness, the suffering that your experience as the personality are there because the personality does not exist as pure form. It carries the past with it, in the past exists as conflicts, memories, undischarged feelings, misunderstandings, ignorance,and all the reactions, associations, and fantasies corresponding to all the ignorance from the past.
personality is like dirty water that has been used many times to clean things but it has not been cleaned or purified itself. The personality needs to be filtered. The past needs to be discharged, eliminated."
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"Thus, the rising of each essential aspect will shed light on a certain element of the ignorance in the personality. When you are inquiring, the presence of an essential state allows you to become very specific about your issues.in the process of inquiry, the personality becomes clearer and purer each time a quality of essence is realized in the issues around are understood."
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"a very interesting thing happens when you become aware of the movement of your personality and you don't go along with it. What happens is you realize that when you don't go along with it, there is no one to go along or not to go along. There are actually two ways of working on the personality: one of them is seeing the personality, thus becoming separate from it, which is called disidentification. The other method involves complete immersion in the personality."
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"when the activity stops, recognize that most of your thoughts and desires and efforts are resistance and what you have been resisting is the present moment, the now."
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"the basis of the personality, the underlying principle that makes it possible for you to be a person, the thing that you have rejected all this time, is nothing but the supreme reality as a person."
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"but what leads to the absence of peace is seeking pleasure, for the simple reason that seeking pleasure assumes that pleasure is somewhere else, some other time, in a different situation, and not here and now. That is the basic premise is seeking, the only pleasure, but seeking anything, including peace. We seek, we are moving away from the pleasure or peace and from the source of pleasure and peace."
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"all activities in life -- all accomplishments, all situations, all relationships -- are empty, if you're not there, if you are not present in them. This is a basic law of human nature."
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"if you look to your assumptions clearly when you are suffering, you can see how in that moment when you believe the delusion is seeking, you are believing that peace cannot be simply here and now."
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"This is a deep conviction: that we are fundamentally deficient, but we do not have anything good or real. From this ingrained perspective, the good stuff is always somewhere else; it can be found only somewhere else or sometime in the future or even the past."
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"value substitute looking for real confidence instead of looking for recognition. Instead of searching for success, you are searching for enlightenment. It is just different words for the same thing; it is the same activity whether it is directed inside or outside."
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