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| | Selected quotes from
"Diamond Heart Book Three"
by A.H. Almaas
Almaas Publications © 1990 Diamond Books |
"Your mind is full of ideas and dreams and plans about what will fulfill you, what will make you happy, what will give you freedom. But these ideas silence the question, comfort your mind, and put out the flame."
Page 4
"Can your mind empty itself of all your possessions, beliefs, theories, knowledge, understanding, and simply remain as a search, a pure inquiry not influenced by anyone or anything, even your own past?"
Page 5
"Are you really in your hands, or do you move them from a distance? Are you present in your cells, inhabiting and filling your body? If you aren't in your body, what significance is there in your experience this moment? Are you preparing, so that you can be here in the future? Are you setting up conditions by saying to yourself, "When such and such happens I'll have time, I'll be here"? If you are not here, what are you saving yourself for?"
Page 11
"Why are you always wanting to get something or go somewhere? Why not just relax and be here, simply existing in all your cells, inhabiting your body?"
Page 12
"Happiness, value, and pleasure are not the result of anything. These qualities are part of our fundamental nature. If we simply allow ourselves to be, this is our natural experience. You are the most precious thing in the universe, but you behave as if you are the poorest, most trivial thing there is. It doesn't really take much to see this. Just stop the whirlwind that goes on. Let yourself relax and be there."
Page 13
"You abandon yourself, then start looking for satisfaction. You feel that there's something missing, so you are always searching, becoming more and more frantic as all the things you acquire or accomplish don't fill you. This whole pattern occurs because you have stopped being. If you just let yourself be there, there is nowhere to go, nothing to look for, because it's all there."
Page 13
"If you simply feel yourself at this moment, even if you don't feel your being in a full, satisfying way, you will naturally become aware of that is blocking your being. What is stopping me from being as this moment? Why do I want to go somewhere else? Why am I always thinking about what's going to make me happy? We can become naturally curious, and begin to unravel the beliefs, hopes and fears that create the blocks to being aware of our being."
Page 13-14
"What stops you from being, from being present, is nothing but your hope for the future."
Page 15
"You might experience discomfort, fear, hurt, various negative feelings. These are the things that you're trying to avoid by not being here. But they are just accumulations of what has been swept under the rug of unconsciousness; they are not you."
Page 15
"You go through a process of purification, not because Being itself is sullied, but because you have so many accumulated assumptions and beliefs about reality."
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