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| | Selected quotes from
"Diamond Heart Book One"
by A.H. Almaas
Almaas Publications © 1987 Diamond Books |
"Essence develops very quickly the moment it is seen and recognized. It thrives on recognition. If you don't recognize it, it stays dormant. The moment you recognize it, it starts growing; it feeds on light."
Page 14
"Sometimes it's not easy to tell what's contributing to the understanding and clarity of your life. But if you can discern what it is, you'll move increasingly toward your essence, because only essence brings this about."
Page 15
"If the person dies, or the relationship ends, I don't feel that I'm losing that person, I feel that I'm losing whatever is filling that hole."
Page 19
"If you stay with the hurt and the pain of loss without trying to cover this pain with something else, it is possible that you will feel the emptiness, feel the hole, see the hole."
Page 20
"We have to go through the hurt at the deepest level, get close to the hole itself, and then we will see the memory of what was lost. When we see the memory of what was lost, the essence that was lost will start flowing again. "
Page 21
"Whenever the self-preservation instinct is blocked and the energy is not flowing, there is a basic sense of insecurity. People are usually very identified with their feelings of insecurity, and will do almost anything to try to fill that hole of insecurity, rather than simply feel it, and so are unaware of a blockage in a certain part of their body. Thus the feeling can't be addressed and dealt with."
Page 66
"Suffering always arises when you are out of contact with essence or seeking something other than essence. If you value anything - husbands, wives, children, girlfriends, parents, jobs, money, sports, cars - anything at all, over what is true in you, there is suffering."
Page 72
"We can look at this now from the perspective of the inner experience. In the beginning you want certain inner stimuli, certain inner sensations and feelings. At first you may think that you want a house, a dog and a cat, a particular job, and so forth so that you can feel a certain way - probably secure or comfortable or fulfilled - feelings like that."
Page 166
"You need to be willing to allow even the desire for the inner sensations and inner stimuli, and the quality and the type of those inner sensations and inner stimuli to change, to be something that maybe you've never known, never thought about. And you might not know until it happens. You might say, "If I'm going to change, I will feel loving. I will feel love and happiness." But maybe the love and happiness you want are not the same love and happiness that a butterfly would feel."
Page 167
"...because the different levels of essence are not only unknown but unimaginable to the personality, having expectations or preferences about what will happen next can only interfere with the process of freeing our essence."
Page 170
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