Tag: self realization

  • Coming to You Soon Through Understanding

    Dream-process-understandingThis phrase was in my dreams last night. It struck such a chord with me, that I remember thinking about it in my dream and, apparently, it stuck in my consciousness somewhere.

    On the way to 24 Hour Fitness at 5:30am today, I was pondering – Coming to You Soon Through Understanding, the process of understanding, and a relative of mine that seems incapable of self-reflection.

    The normal process of understanding is a pale reflection of the power that inquiry, self-reflection, insight and revelation bring to the soul’s unfoldment. To change the deep programming and convictions that exist in the soul requires us to be powerfully affected by reality – what’s real.

    Thinking about change, adopting strategies to live by, positive affirmations, and the like are not enough to dissolve fundamental beliefs and misunderstandings that keep the soul from knowing and living a realized life.

    Coming to You Soon Through Understanding – Self-Realization. That’s how the dream ended. When I first heard the phrase in the dream it was like an advertisement. I was wondering, in the dream, what are they promoting. (I suppose “they” are actually me since it was my dream)

    The relative, I mentioned earlier, is a constant source of contemplation for me. It boggles my mind that a person can absolutely believe that the problem always resides in the other. There seems to be an inability  (beyond the question capacity) to actually be able to look at oneself from a place of openness and curiosity. There isn’t even a spark of interest or desire to explore the possibilities of the self and the world being more than one imagines it to be.

    There is nothing quite like the wonderment, the bedazzlement and the delight of revelation through understanding.

    Of Interest – perhaps

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  • Quintessence – Essence of the Essence

    Merrill_hall_asilomarI just returned from a 10–day retreat with A.H. Almaas. The retreat was held at Asilomar near Monterey, California.

    The focus of the retreat was Quintessence which Almaas refers to as the Essence of the Essence. In his book, Brilliancy: The Essence of Intelligence, he refers to brilliancy as the essence of the essence.

    I asked Almaas about this and he replied that this was an example of the evolution of his teaching – The Diamond Approach to Self-Realization. When he became aware of brilliancy as an essential quality, he saw that it contained all the other essential qualities within it in a unique way. He started referring to brilliancy at times as the essence of the essence to reflect this capacity of brilliancy.

    Later, when he discovered the Quintessence, he started to refer to it as the essence of the essence. He no longer refers to brilliancy as the essence of the essence.

    So, brilliancy can be viewed, in part, as the essence of all essential qualities, but the quintessence is fundamentally the essence of the essence.

    Which probably raises the question for you – what is the quintessence?

    Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French quinte essence, from Medieval Latin quinta essentia, literally, fifth essence
    Date: 15th century

    1 : the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies 2 : the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form

    More on that later.

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