Being-Love

  February 1, a little later. The sun has already touched the edge of the table, and in this growing light, my thoughts—previously cocooned within my own soul—begin to expand outward, toward the Other. I asked myself: how does this starved freedom, this quiet architecture of deprivation, change the way we touch the people around us? If money and material security are often the armor with which we face the world, then their absence leaves us stripped bare—not only before God, but before our neighbor. A true encounter between two human beings is possible only when we stop seeing each other as objects of use or instruments of security. From a psychoanalytic perspective, most of our relationships are woven from projections and transfers—we rarely love the person across from us; more often, we love the function they fulfill in our internal economic model. We love their ability to give us confidence, their status, their role as the "good parent" or the "generous donor." B...

The Self is the only reality

 

"The Self is the only reality that always exists, and in its light, all things are seen. We forget this and direct our attention to the external world. The hall is illuminated whether there are people in it or not, whether they are performing a play or nothing is happening. It is the light that allows us to see the hall, the people, and their performance. We are so absorbed by the objects or phenomena revealed by the light that we fail to pay attention to the light itself. Like the torches in the hall that always burn, the light of Consciousness or the Self is always present—whether in the waking state or the dream state, where things appear, or in deep sleep, where nothing is seen. What we must do is focus on the seer, not the seen, not on the objects, but on the light that reveals them."
— Ramana Maharshi.

 

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