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Excerpted from a June 2011 weekend intensive, “Fierce Grace”: bit.ly/4cqfBBG
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Quotes from this video:
“Life seems to be amazingly adept at showing us what’s real and what’s not real.”
“Whatever is pleasant to the ego, it wants more, but it’s never really satisfied. That’s one of the lies that ego tells, that it will be satisfied and can be satisfied. But it won’t be satisfied and it can’t be satisfied.”
“Part of what brings people into a deeper exploration of life is that they start to see this lie of the ego. The way they are moving in the world-there is something unsatisfying about it. Somehow this unsatisfactoriness-in terms of our own transformation, our own spiritual awakening-is extraordinarily positive, it’s a fierce grace.”
“Historically there’s a certain kind of cultural glue that our stories hold together. That’s really one of the main purposes of religion-to give people a collective story, a collective myth, that holds cohesion in this human community. And when that story breaks down, then the society breaks down, falls apart, and transforms. We see that happening in the world right now in spades-certain ideologies, ways, myths, stories-people are saying, ‘this doesn’t work for me.’ This is way too unsatisfying. This isn’t actually true. So it breaks up.”
“It’s useful to start to hear the voice of how ego operates, so you get familiar with it. When it’s doing the speaking inside of your head, now you know what’s doing the speaking. Once you get a feeling for how the egoic mode works-how it talks in your mind, how it relates to moments of difficulty, once you get to know it, once you get to recognize it, which is really important, to recognize it-that’s the first step in it no longer having power over you.”