Mar 18, 06:24 PM
The brothers karamazov and the power of now.
I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road, and try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don’t be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead of nearer to it—at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of … Now
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconcious resistance to what is.
On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement, on the emotional level it is some sort of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends upon how strongly you are identified with your mind.
Hmmm…Observing observing observing… accept accepting acceptance… be free, just be.
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
power of now byEckhart Tolle,
Two books well worth reading.
enjoy~dorje
