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Awareness Leads to Presence...
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2/8/2009 3:35 PM
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Awareness Leads to Presence...
If we stay with this process (being present), paying attention to what is real - to what is happening right now - we begin to experience a subtle Presence pervading our inner space and our surroundings. It feels light, exquisite,
and pleasurable and can manifest many different qualities. Thus, by bringing our awareness to the actual experience of the present moment, we begin to be filled with Presence. Indeed, we may recognize that this Presence is what we fundamentally are.
What is remarkable is that Presence always reveals what in us is blocking us from becoming more present. The more we become present, the more we become aware of the parts of our
selves that are not relaxed, the parts we have not fully occupied. The more we are able to relax, the more we become aware of the subtle movement of Presence filling us and surrounding us. It may be helpful just to stay with that impression without labeling it or thinking about it too much. In time, what was subtle and vague will become clearer and more distinct as new layers of Being reveal themselves to us.
However, becoming attuned to the vibrant nature of Presence, and seeing the enormous investments of our life enrgy in the 'projects' of the personality, provides a way out At the same time, we cannot simply decide to be present; yet without the intention to be present, Presence is impossible. So how can a person in a trance break out of his own trance?
'In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted (Jung).'
'... It is this nonjudgmental awareness alone that heals and changes and makes one grow. But in its own way and at its own time (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love).'
(Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson, The Wisdom of the Enneagram [The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types])
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RE: Awareness Leads to Presence...
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2/9/2009 3:29 PM
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All there really is,
in the end,
is being present to now
with love . . .
sparrow
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bernie
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RE: Awareness Leads to Presence...
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2/9/2009 4:48 PM
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True...
'In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted (Jung).'
'... It is this nonjudgmental awareness alone that heals and changes and makes one grow. But in its own way and at its own time (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love).'
And, apparently, in reincarnation terms it may take many lifetimes till the Bodhisattva stage is attained.
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