When we were little, we thought our bodies were who we are. When we grew up, we thought the thoughts in our heads were who we are. After we experienced life, we thought there were two selves in our heads. There was another self who was always fearful, angry, greedy, jealous, vain, lazy, and proud. He often argued with the other self. We began to feel anxious, internally consumed, irritable, and depressed. Many people spend most of their lives shrouded in this emotion. After meditation, sitting in meditation, spiritual training, and enlightenment, a third self will appear in our brains. This is the wise self, who will look down on the quarrels between the first two selves in the brain and calm them down. Identify what I can change and what I need to accept as unchangeable. image

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carte 1 year ago
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GM You are not what you feel inside your head. You are the the combination of what God made you and the story that you tell through your actions.
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brightfuture 1 year ago
Thank you. I'm on this path too. I now realise there are so many parts of me that live inside me. My inner child, teenager, protector, punisher... To name just a few. I'm working on guiding each of my parts from the perspective of my higher /wiser self. Oh, this is a life long journey? ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‚
I have a friend that says she does not understand how I have not yet set a practice of meditation. I reckon we all different, and my meditation happens in very peculiar moments, wherever I am. Also, when dancing. I am too restless to stay still. ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŒˆ
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