The Untethered Soul

They tell us that to maintain honest relations with others we must first be true to ourselves.

You can become so absorbed in beautiful inner feelings, or frightening inner fears, that it’s hard to focus on outer objects. In essence, inside and outside objects compete for your attention. You are in there having both inner and outer experiences

Consciousness is always drawn to the most distracting object: the bumped toe, the loud noise, or the hurting heart. It’s the same law, both inside and out. The consciousness goes to the place that distracts it the most. That’s what we mean when we say, “It was so loud it caught my attention.”

You don’t want your happiness to be conditional upon the behavior of other people. It’s bad enough that your happiness is conditional upon your own behavior. When you start making it conditional upon other people’s behavior, you’re in serious trouble.

Reality is just too real for most of us, so we temper it with the mind.

The first thing you’ll realize is that there’s no hope of getting rid of it until you really want to.

The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality.

Reality is just too real for most of us, so we temper it with the mind.

You think that if you change things outside, you’ll be okay. But nobody has ever truly become okay by changing things outside. There’s always the next problem. The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference.

Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It’s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes problems.