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A new beginning
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The wise guide
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| Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to. | ||
| As you listen more and more to the teachings, contemplate them, and integrate them into your life, your inner voice, you innate wisdom of discernment, what is called discriminating awareness is awakened and strengthened and you start to begin to distinguish between its guidance and the various clam,porous and enthralling voices of ego. The memory of your real nature, with all its splendor and confidence begins to return to you. | ||
| You will find, in fact, that you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide. because he or she knows you through and through, since he or she is you, your guide can help you with increasing clarity and humour, negotiate all the difficulties of your thoughts and emotions. | ||
| Your guide can also be a continual, joyful , tender, sometimes teasing presence, who knows always what is best for you and will help you find ways more and more out of your obsession with your habitual responses and confused emotions. | ||
| As the voice of your discriminating awareness grows stronger and clearer, you will start to distinguish between its truth and the various deceptions of the ego, and you will be able to listen to it with discernment and confidence. | ||
| The more often you listen to this wise guide, the more easily you will be able to change your negative moods yourself, see through them, and even launch at them for the absurd dramas and ridiculous illusions that they are. Gradually you find yourself able to free yourself more and more quickly from the dark emotions that have ruled your life and this ability to do so is the greatest miracle of all. | ||
| A Tibetan holy man once said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. | ||
| We have come to a central junction in our journey and our search. We have investigated a great many ideas, subjects of human inquiry and answers to | ||
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