In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share
“Generally speaking, 99 percent of the time life is benign and supportive. The ego leads us to fixate on the 1 percent when it is painful, dark, or tragic - although even in these times, it is usually only painful and tragic to us (our tragedy might be someone else's good luck). Although the mind imagines worst-case scenarios - like… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share
In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share
“Reconnecting means opening up to whatever part of our experience we were not previously allowing in . . . If our problem has been with another person, we will not react to them in the ways that our habits have previously compelled us to. When we are entranced by our personality, we believe that we know what the other person… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share
“Self-acceptance is a way of viewing oneself compassionately, without condemnation or justification. It is a starting point in life which makes other things possible. It celebrates the fullness of joy of being alive and of being who we are: accepting ourselves, however, does not mean embracing our neuroses or bad habits and celebrating them as if they were virtues. On… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share
If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“One of the most important elements of spiritual progress is a willingness and ability to let go of the past, and this inevitably means wrestling with the problem of forgiving those who have hurt us in various ways. But how can we let go of hurts and resentments that bind us to our old identities and prevent us from moving… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share
“One of the ego's main defenses against doing so (experiencing our Essence)is the belief that spirituality is something rarefied, impractical, and very far away. In fact, it is closer than we think, as the mystics assure us: we do not have to go anywhere or accomplish anything. What we must learn is to stop running away from ourselves . .… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share
“As I turned my head and looked out the window, I saw that everything around me was glowing from within. The sunlight on the… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“The process of transforming the heart can be difficult because as we open it, we inevitably encounter our own pain and become more aware… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“The body is extremely important for Inner Work, because it is a reliable reality check in ways that our minds and emotions (the other… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.” — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves.… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
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