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Time to Stop Running from Haunted Houses and the Broken Heart
You offer me present aimlessly at split second, it warms my heart like star at a Summer night. If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life. No matter how small you are, a leaf or a blade of grass, you have your own love on the vast Earth. Develop a habit of doing whatever is required to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing the dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care that it would take to make a work of art. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 8
My heart is also concerned about you. The past occurs to my mind all of a sudden with the endless yearning. Transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that you like doing or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, something we never did before, something we enjoy doing, but do not often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the World to see, to do, to learn about. However, they do not become actually interesting until we devote attention to them. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 8
When I miss you, my nights are more than days. Bright stars cover my sky many times, but I only care for the brightness silently and imagine that all of my days are full of sunshine because of you. Time stress has become one of the most popular complaints of the day. However, more often than not, it is an excuse for not taking control of our lives. How many of the things that we do are really necessary? How many of the demands could be reduced if we put some energy into prioritizing, organizing, and streamlining the routines that now fritter away our attention? #RyanPhillippe 3 of 8
Feeling is so subtle. You cannot reject its coming, neither can you keep it back, however you try, when it ebbs. It is true that is we let time run through our fingers we will soon have none left. One must learn to husband it carefully, not so much in order to achieve wealth and security in some distant future, but in order to enjoy life here and now. May we be stars in the sky of youth scattering whiteness and ever-lasting glory together. Our sincere love is smooth water of the lake shining the Sun and the Moon in our hearts. I cannot forget your smiling eyebrows, which accompany me during the long night. Years go by, but sincere love is left. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 8
We should not be at a loss for love. An honest heart is a vast sea and I keep the image of your sail in my heart. Time is what one must find in order to develop interest and curiosity to enjoy life for its own sake. The other equally important resource is the ability to control psychic energy. Instead of waiting for an external stimulus or challenge to grab our attention, we must learn to concentrate it more or less at will. This ability is related to interest by a feedback loop of mutual causation and reinforcement. Someone has said change is just the meeting of two clouds, it will continue as long as we grasp chance well; our love will have a result as long as we value it. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 8
Love is more than flowers, smiles, kisses and Spring breezes, and it is also the pine trees in Winter and the sparkles at night and the mutual hand-in-hand support in a trudge. If I am interested in something, I will focus my attention on it, and if I focus my attention on anything, it is likely that I will become interested in it. The contents of awareness—thoughts, feelings, and sensations—come into clearer focus as we let thoughts fly in the sky and turn to clouds. I can see you in the distance with strength and striving for the better. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 8
Efforts may be made to understand, to quiet the mind, to fix or purify something that we imagine is wrong or missing. In the end, however, effort is discarded. Both fortune and misfortune have their respective places unforgettably. Whatever befalls us, we should not be overjoyed nor down cast. History has posed both challenges and opportunities to us. Seizing the opportunities in meeting the challenges will enable us to rank among the present-day nations. You are more present, engaged, intimate, spacious, and compassionate. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 8
Your attention tends to be more innocent and affectionate because of your life experiences allow you to come from the heart, not the head. Rather than feeling yourself as being essentially separate from me, you feel joined on a fundamental level. We are moved by each other’s suffering in an intimate way because there is a natural flow of empathy and love between us, which is a multidimensional experience. This open acceptance stimulates authentic transformation. Never depend on luck! The top principle of us is: never surrender to any difficulty. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 8
Homegrown 1998—We All Feel Your Heart
There were several moments in our work together when there was a natural stop to our conventional thinking and feeling and we simultaneously dropped into a shared space of Being. God will wipe all tears from the eyes of people, and there will be no more death, suffering, crying, or pain. In seeking to understand persuasion and healing the basic problem is demoralization: loss of spirit, a sense of failure, a feeling of powerlessness to affect oneself and one’s World. A person experiences bewilderment, confusion, lack of courage. The demands of the World grow too much; the necessity to extricate oneself proves impossible. One no longer feels like drinking lemonade in one’s World. A special kind of relationship with you has been formed in my life, you have enriched my spirit, developed my intelligence and ignited a ray of hope. Since the loss of significant relationships constitutes the source of demoralization, the recovery of vitality requires meaningful involvement with others. The one seeking help expects the other to be able to help. In other words, the sufferer experiences the responder as genuinely caring about his well-being. God hates suffering and injustice. When people mistreat others, God becomes distressed. God detests people who harm or kill the innocent.
When God looked out on creation one aspect alone stood out as not good. It is not good for humans to be alone. The pain of being alone can be terrible because of the loneliness. I care about you and I respond to you sensitively and clarifyingly by words and tone and intensity when in your actual presence. When I speak with you what is on the surface and what lurks in the depths are genuinely disclosed, unless it is something I would not want your mother to read. Spring rains dye the World while disappearing quietly on the Earth. We will be grateful forever. A heart lacking attention requires the most Sunshine. How many times have you comforted me with your warm big hands? I will cherish you and treasure your love and your deep feelings forever. God cares for us as individuals. Not only does he know each and every one of us, God knows what plagues us and our pain. However, God does not cause our problem, and he feels for us when we suffer. God wants to uplift of all like brand new babies and save us and shower us with love and protection. Have hope, expectation of change, trust, an emotional relationship, the facilitation of emotional arousal, catharsis, receiving information, the social impact of the healer.
I take you as you are where you are without qualification, deeply prizing your human potentials. The pleasure you have brought about, the assistance you have offered, the love you have showed and the life you have lived—all these make you more amiable and respectable with every passing year in my heart. You are free to remain silent or to verbalize anything that requires expression while we sustain our intimate contact with the eyes either open or closed. With me you have discovered a greater sense of freedom and authenticity. There is no longer any conflict. There is a total absence of negativity and an all-encompassing lovingness that is experienced as serenity, tranquility, timelessness, completion, fulfillment, stillness, and contentment. A pleasant mood, and the ensuing good health are the biggest capital for happiness. Wish you a cheerful mood and longevity. I am not sure if I can stall time or not, but I would like to let my greeting and blessing stay forever in your heart. There is an inner quiet and light, a feeling of oneness, unity, and total freedom. The peace is imperturbable. My blessing is out of my heart. Without thousands and thousands of words, my blessing is a silent song from my heart, wishing you safety and success. My congratulations to you, a resurrected eagle with golden feathers, on your first flight rising from the red flames. Actions become effortless, spontaneous, harmonious, and loving in their effect.
Even when I travel to the ends of the Earth, I see your kind smiling face and loving gaze in front of my eyes. You are in my heart a monument that will never fall. There is a shift of perception of the Universe and of our relationship to it. The inner Self prevails. The personal self has been transcended, with all of its feelings, beliefs, identities, and concerns. The Sun is speechless but emits rays, you are the Earth that gave me life and has brought me up. This is the official state sought by all seekers. Love is a taciturn agreement between two hearts. A glance between a pair in love tells far more of flawless memory and a pure friendship. Give me a gentle heart and an eternal beauty. Love is a great happiness to human. Love means that a man not only depends on happiness from life, but also present happiness to the beloved. We have moments of profound peace where time and the World seemed to stop suddenly, and it seems that we have come in contact with the Infinite. We are no longer a victim of the people in this World. We are no longer at their effect as we once were, for we have entered into the truth about who and what we really are. I see a crystal-like heart because you have given me all your love in the World. You walk a lot accompanying with my dream and hope for a long time. Could you walk with me forever? An energy field of total peace is unassailable. We can no longer be intimidated, controlled, manipulated nor programmed. We are invulnerable to the threats of the World and have, therefore, mastered Earthly life. Human suffering is no longer possible because the very basis of that vulnerability has been totally relinquished. In the dark night, on the sea, thank you for bringing guiding my Albatross. The love grows out of our hearts.
When Men First Visit Virgin Islands of the Southern Sacramento
At each dawn moment, you would become a part of my deep missing inevitably; I still wish to see the sunshine from your beautiful eyes in the future days, and see the love story. So deep is my love that I am controlled by emotion instead of reason. Thinking of you fills me with energy. I love you for your absolute sincerity. Thank you for being that something of extraordinary value in my life. By demolishing boundaries, we allow sameness. By allowing sameness, we eliminate functioning. By eliminating functioning, we de-structure objects. By de-structuring objects, it is believed, we find life. One should learn to consider the beautiful heart more valuable than the figure. If one meets a beautiful spirit, one should love him. #RyanPhillippe 1 0f 9
The light of love shines on our daily life as the lightning turns the mediocre gullies and lush forest into legendary mirages. You love-lit eyes are like sparkling stars, dispelling loneliness from my heart. My love falls into your sea, splashing a beam of blue moonlight floats my heart. However, just as a sense of the one can obscure life, so we are learning that a sense of the many can likewise obliterate life. Wherever we stay, we have kept correspondence. Mountains and rivers cannot keep us from Earth Day Festivals. The wonderful scene of our reunion seems to be just before our eyes. Though we are now apart from each other, our hearts are linked together. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 9
Among all the people in the World, you are always the first I have sent my blessing to. Wish you every success and good health. To separate one part from another part, to segregate one side from another side, to exclude some and to include others eventually leads to one-sided, lopsided, off-balance, exaggerated distortion of the oneness and wholeness that is our heritage of divine humanity. We end up isolated and insulated in a multi-verse of our own making. Nonetheless, may happiness and joy accompany you like your own shadow! May your success and progress like Sunrise spur you on forever! #RyanPhillippe 3 of 9
I have collected everything beautiful in nature and put them in an envelope to deliver to you and hidden all the sweet words in the buds to pour out at the moment of the reunion. Through the centuries mystics have experienced unity within diversity, oneness in the midst of multiplicity, commonality underlying the fragmentary, affiliation at the core of alienation. Basically, outer and inner are two views of one reality. Such discovery makes for a recovery of one’s genuine humanity. The reintegrating of the pieces and parts of one’s life follows an identifiable pattern. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 9
Frist of all, let us learn to have the strength of confidence, the strength that will enable us to live for all eternity in experience Heaven on Earth, as God intended life to be, and to return in act from the virtual World, but still we require that aspiration. Not only have we hidden the truth from others, but also disguised it from ourselves. Yes. I am present in the pieces. I am there and there and there. You might see me as an interesting person whose face reflects a lot of life experience, character, and wisdom. I might appear as someone who has liberated his soul. I have become totally open. My eyes gaze widely and nothing is hidden, and my soul has been poured out for all to read. Undaunted persistence may subdue whatever peak in the World. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 9
Please cheer up and never be a coward when facing unemployment, homelessness, hunger, nor bankruptcy, but start from scratch to have a new lease of life. Having found evidence of ourselves in widely scattered pieces, we may mistakenly conclude that all of us is out there. Yes. I am not only in the pieces (there and there and there), I am also in the parts (here and here and here). I am in fact, part and parcel of that powerful, beneficial, loving energy that was holding the city together. The people who render the World prosperous are those who are courageous in life to try to solve the new problems in life. My friend, may you be one of them. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 9
There is an all-silent knowingness that the oneness reflects, an infinite energy that is counterbalancing the total negativity of Sacramento City right now, because the power that has been shared was Infinite. Without goodness (counterbalance), the city would self-destruct. I think I a competent to take that view, for my attitude is really impartial, since if, on the one hand, I have done my best to destroy some taboos, on the other, I not only have a firm faith in taboos, but I regard them as absolutely an indestructible element of social life, and not of human life alone. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 9
A taboo, speaking roughly, simply indicates something that is not done, things not to be touched. The term expresses a more comprehensive meaning that is both spiritual and temporal in its nature and effects. The reason why it may not done may be, and often is unknown to those who observe the taboo. So that all sorts of reasons—often very unreasonable reasons—are invented to explain taboo. However, below the surface there always are reasons for taboos. Among wild birds in a special phase of bird-existence it is taboo to remain close to human beings. That taboo is strictly analogous to human taboos; it is an adopted custom. It is not found everywhere among birds. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 9
When men first visit Virgin Islands of the Southern Sacramento, there are birds who do not regard human beings as taboo. The taboo is introduced later when human beings have become destructive to the bird society. It is, of course, completely unnecessary to be aware of the reason for the taboo, and if birds ever acquired speculative minds they would invent reasons. That is, as we know, exactly what human societies do. The distinction of human taboos is officially in their high imaginativeness, alike as regards their nature and the supposed reasons assigned for them, and in the comparative swiftness with which they may change. How I miss that trail of our accompanied footprints in the days of intoxicating friendship. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 9
May Every Day Turn to Sincere Blessing
My heart is as vast as the sea, and my love is as deep as the ocean. The more I give you, the richer I am, both are boundless. A key to making Love unconditional is the willingness to forgive. In the World, you know only you to me as the source of encouragement, the ingenious consolation and the light flickering in the recesses of my spirit. In ecstasy, I look at you and listen to you breathing. In your shadow, with the fresh air, I no longer want to gaze at you as I am so tightly hugging you. You hold up my heart, which is listless and dazed. You put it by your on a golden pedestal. We pray for a miracle to see the truth about this situation and surrender all of our opinions. We look at the payoffs we are getting from keeping our perception of what occurred, and we let go of each little payoff: the pleasure of self-pity, of being right, of being wronged, and of our resentments. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5
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You are in my eyes the whole World, so how can you say that I am alone? I like you as a daily necessity as I need unconsciously the Sun light and candle. With no restraint, I love you as people choose the way of justice. With pure sincerity, I love you as people love praises and compliments. Understanding or misunderstanding, agony or mirth, beginning or ending, intoxication or freedom, reunion or separation are all full of love. Eventually, we surrender the very idea of forgiveness. To forgive someone implies that we are still seeing the person or situation as wrong, and therefore, in requirement of being forgiven. True surrender means letting go completely of seeing it in such a way. When we surrender our perception completely, letting go of all judgment, then whole situation is transfigured and we see the person as lovable. We have liberated ourselves in the process. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5
Our love at the beginning is an unrestraint love; our love in middle age is a charming protracted one; our love in antiquated age is a profound and mutually dependable one. One the level of unconditional love, we love everybody and everything—even our critics. Sometimes people are over taken by negative energies, and we have to be willing to forgive them, because they cannot help what is happening to them. They have been overcome by evil. Instead of hating evil, we feel sorrow and compassion that people have become overwhelmed by such negativity. People who wrong us do what they think they must do out of honor. However, the chat between the two hearts by the warm mantelpiece and the dependence of the two hearts on each other in the madding World make the shared responsibility of the two on the life’s arena. If my love is a beautiful rose, and you are a green leaf, we will live together rain or shine. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5
Nobody keeps abreast with you and nobody is superior to you. You alone can sing as an eagle. Although I am all for you, my compliments are too pale for your praises. I love you so wildly that I can but only love you alone. Periods of inner stillness and beauty begin to occur with greater frequency and duration. Oddly, we still see episodes of great inner turmoil and struggle. These periods of intense inner work occur because we can no longer tolerate negativity. Now that we have greater power of consciousness, we are able to reach down and handle problems at the deepest levels of consciousness. These may be such problems as those concerning the source of identity or concept of self. Breakthroughs of great serenity and peace may also occur after prolonged periods of continual surrender. Love is a rose that captivates the whole Universe. Love is a rose that lets the World see its beauty. May you hold this rose. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5
May we jointly open up and allow life to bring us infinite love, and profound peace beyond description. Love is curiously powerful and totally unassailable, and it will continue ad become even stronger. May illusion of dream be in the rosy clouds in the horizon; may eagles pick us up flying to the oasis of life. The same profound stillness, harmony, and peace prevails even at work. This pervasive peace and tranquility is that power that enabled it all to happen and held it together in one continuous unity. Within the essence of that stillness is unlimited power, and it is clear that this is the very power that counteracted and balanced the collective negativity of the city. As without, so within. Similarly, it is clear that this same cohesive power is that which also counterbalances the negativity of the personality. If unopposed, that negativity would destroy the person and the body with it. Although there are unexpected changes in the World, and others may have their altar of happiness, I only know and I am only willing that you are my first and last love. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5
I Cherish True Love in my Heart
I cherish your true love in my heart. I do not care is we are together as long as we have each other. May we love each other forever. Each star is bright, and each flower is fragrant, and whenever I remember you, I remember your love of me. Tears of departure comfort the pains in my heart. The best wishes you leave me with turn into bright visions in my dreams. I wish to live always in the dream, in which your image I can see. Oh, am I also in your dreams? With you in my memory, there is no end to pleasure. Memorable events cherished in heart; sweet memories will last. It is characterized by inner joy, faith, ecstasy, patience, compassion, persistence, essence, beauty, synchronicity, perfection, surrender, rapture, vision and openness. Everything happens effortlessly by synchronicity. Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim. How I wish this small piece of paper would take to you my restless yearning. In my heart there is a secret. It is contained in only four words—I miss you sorely. Joy emanates from the inner subjective experience of our own existence. The power of the joy is subjective, not steaming from any source outside of oneself. We may dance with ecstasy all night in a candlelit chapel, as if being by the Source of Life Itself. In that state, the innate perfection and stunning beauty of all that exists shine forth like a luminous radiance, as the infusion of spiritual energy facilitates the perception to vision. How tranquil! How quiet! What silvery moonlight! Where are you, my dear? When can we sit together by the window enjoying this quiet, tranquil evening?
I always say in the morning to myself that the hard weather will be over in the end and the way of melancholy will not be too long. A long night brings back the past happenings that seem to have happened yesterday, which makes my heart no longer as tender. Who will gloss over my loneliness, and I will say no more after the wind passes by. When the seed of love is sown into our hearts, you have to water it with loyalty and I have to cultivate it with sincerity, and then the fruit it bears is sure to be happiness. You are a streak of cool water that flows into my heart. The water changes into vintage wine that will intoxicate us in happiness. The miraculous is common. What is termed supernatural is seen to occur all of the time, inexplicable by reason, logic, or cause and effect. We are the channels of love. Spiritual progress is known to be the result of Grace, not the result of our personal endeavors. Gratitude for the state replaces pride of accomplishment. The process of surrender continues ever more deeply, as we let go of all doubt, all belief systems, all perceptions, all positions, all opinion, and all attachments. We become willing to surrender all attachments, even attachments, even attachment to the exquisite state of Ecstasy, which is beyond description. The clash of souls off the flashes over the summer jasmine, and we walk hand in hand into the World of youth. All opinions about others are surrendered. In a certain way, nobody can help being other than what they are. Love knows this truth and takes no position. Love focuses on the benefits about others rather than their defects. Love focuses on life’s goodness in all of its expressions of joy. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror? Do you believe that your beauty is matchless, and everyone is infatuated with you? However, I love your soul more than your handsome appearance. Unconditional love is a love that does not expect anything from others. When we have become loving, we have no limitations or demands on others that they should be a certain way in order to be loved. I love you no matter how you are. If you are the beautiful seashore, I will be the tidal wave at your feet. The white wave is the love song sung for your and the colorful seashells are the poetic lines composed for you. Whether on the ebb or flow, the sea and shore are always together. How many times I want to see your happy smile.
How many times I have a good time with you whispering face to face. I have been laughing with you, full of tender feelings; I have gained your elation which only love gives you. I miss you, every second, every minute in every day. I dream of you, every second, every minute at every night. When love is unconditional, there is no hidden agenda, or bookkeeping of who gives what to whom. Our love is unconditional for whatever we are. Love illuminates the essence. Happiness is not hidden in the satiation but in the yearning. I always ask you how far it is from the eyes to the heart. Sincere love opens hearts, it gives out the sweet tenderness. The mind thinks and argues, but the heart knows and continues. Can these bright stars be your charming eyes? Your eyes are stars to me, in the vast ocean of life, navigating me to the dawn. Our love fully extends every minute of our life because every minute is full of beauty of living and life. The most beautiful face in the World is yours, the warmest chest in the World is yours, the strongest arms in the World are your, the purest heart in the World is yours. You come to me; I feel like taking in a refreshing air; you come to me like a deep sea in whose arms I am lightly floating. Even when I make mistakes, you love me. Thoughts tells us one thing, but the heart is loving no matter what. For many days, our sensitive hearts have tried to memorize too many things, but suddenly we look back, only to find that we remember nothing but the face of a comrade-in-arms who have gone with us through months and years. You enter my life like a beautiful knight in a fairy tale, bringing Spring to my life. Pure and natural with no disguise, laughing when you are happy, crying when you are in sorrow, living a simple and free life.
Time is what One Develop Curiosity for and Enjoy for its Own Sake
Ryan, your youth is beautiful because it likes prosperous Spring willows, gurgling Spring, surging waves and galloping wheels. I wish you are young forever. This is a book of fact, not fiction. The episodes described in its pages actually happened. My narration, which includes some reconstructed dialogue, is based on hundreds of interviews, transcripts, audio, and video archives and first hand observation. The characters, bigger and lesser, are real. And although their stories may occasionally have a through-the-looking glass quality, know that they are not the product of journalistic imagination, but an accurate chronicle of life and times in a most curious World. Both fortune and misfortune have their respective places unforgettable. Whatever befalls us, we should not be overjoyed nor downcast. #RyanPhillippe1 of 8
This is the very perfection of man, to find out his own imperfections. Typically, people thing of love as romantic love, as in Honey and Sweetheart. However, romantic love is only a minor part of a human lifetime. There are many types of love other than personal, romantic love, and they infuse our everyday experience: love of family or friends, love of country, love of attributes, love as virtue, love as acceptance, love as motivator, love as appreciation, love as kindness, love as essence of relationship, love as group energy (like a date night), love as admiration, love as respect, love as fraternal bonds of unity, love as loyalty, love as affection, love as cherishing, love as self-sacrificing love, love as devotion. Sail the Albatross of life through White Squalls and dangerous oceans toward the heart of your wishes, no matter how winding the sea-route is. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 8
When we talk nowadays of the social aspects of modern life, and especially of its sexual aspects, we are sure to refer to what is call the disappearance of taboos. We proceed to enumerate a number of things which is our society were formerly forbidden (and presumably not done) and now are not forbidden, together with a corresponding list of things which were formerly prescribed (and presumably carried out) but now are regarded as unnecessary, indifferent, or even undesirable, to use no stronger terms. Love is a beautiful nightmare, as the popular song goes. On the level of love, the radiance is no longer hidden from us. Love facilitates healing. It transforms life. Once you become loving, there are certain things you can never do again. And there are certain things you can do in the energy field of love that are impossible otherwise. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 8
People who love you do things for you they would not do for others. Love makes possible the miraculous without labeling it miraculous. Love has a transfiguring effect. Before I depart you, I still do not know what is loneliness and what the happiness of love. As this moment, I feel the loneliness of love and know I lose much for the first time. I am grateful for every act of kindness from you, your affection, love, and thoughtfulness. Every movement we make, is energized by the lovingness that we have owned within ourselves. The energy of love is felt pouring out of you. True love will not change because of separation because you will stretch out your hands and accept my best wishes. May the flower of happiness be fragrant in your future days. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 8
May bright sunshine, youth vigour, beautiful appearance and comfortable smile belong to your forever! In a state of love, I wake up every morning and give thanks for another day of life, and I seek to make life better for everyone around me. Because of the presence of love, things go better. You dip in passionate love and write me warm poems, at last you make sweet honey with your heart. Love is a great happiness to human. Love means that a man not only demands happiness from life, but also present happiness to the beloved. The sweet dew of your heart always moistens me and makes me feel the beauty of life and the hope for the future. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 8
Sweet love between us is like a song of happiness. Beautiful love is a taciturn agreement between two hearts. A glance between a pair in love tells far more heartfelt compliments, health, what pleasure is to longevity. If there is one quality that distinguishes me, is that my psychic energy seems inexhaustible. Even though I have no greater attentional capacity than anyone else, I pay more attention to what happens around me, I notice more, and I am willing to invest more attention in things for my own sake without expecting an immediate return. I hoard my attention carefully. I dole it out only for serious things that will give me some material or emotional advantage. The result is that I do not have much attention left over to participate in the World on its own terms, to be surprised, to learn new things, to empathize, to grow beyond the limits set by my self-centeredness. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 8
Many other people are less concern with themselves, and therefore have more free psychic energy to experience life with. I usually report high challenges and high skills on my brain scans, differs from my classmates in that I am thinking most of the time of my father, shopping at the mall, or thinking about how to earn good ratings. I am also fascinated by mythology and am called a Gothic Scholar. I work in a museum three afternoons a week, helping to store and classify artifacts and rare antiquities. I enjoy the most routine aspects of my work, like putting everything in the archives and things like that, as well as being alert to what is going on around me and learning from it. At the same time, I enjoy my dad, with whom I have long debates about religion and life after school. Believe me what I say soon you will see a sea of wealth coming your way. Jigak Migah Moras Makash Maskash Jehasal Khis Udhat Lohad. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 8
My interest are still expressions of my unique individuality, but I seem to truly care for what I do at least in part of its own sake. I have had numerous close encounters—of the spooky kind—and seen enough apparitions in the two room, 100-year-old house to know the place is haunted. When afternoon, I was alone in the kitchen, waiting for the beer distributor, when the ghost touched my arm. Another time, it gently patted my posterior. And then when I was 13 I became interested in chemistry. I was very excited when I realized that chemists could convert certain substances into other substances with quite different properties….Hydrogen and oxygen gases forming water. So ever since then, I have spent much of my time trying to better understand chemistry. And this means really to understand the World, the nature of the Universe. Other former residents had indeed been involved in a series of tragic events that resulted in divorce, great personal loss, and/or suicide. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 8
Secrets and Lies Confidential–Dialogue is the Elixir of Life
We depart each other, but your image is still in my heart like the obscure illusion of time making my melancholy heart. We say bye-bye hurrily to our respective destination. We have no words, no tears, only eternal missing and blessing resonating in our hearts. I cherish every meeting in life, every warmth in the World and every friend of mine. Even departure, I look it as the happiness for meeting again. Although the vast majority of divorce occur within the first five years of marriage, very few occur immediately. More typically the relationship erodes slowly over a period of time, an insidious process that only gradually leads to the termination of all dialogue. Let us leave our memories in the scent of the flowers…every corner of our campus keeps our friendship and our fantasy. Do you still remember the road with colorful cobble stone? Beautiful flowers and green willows are on both sides of it. On many mornings and at many nights we take a walk here…It is in my memory and your heart with our friendship. We depart silently just as we meet silently at the very beginning. May warm breeze bring you my deep feeling and wishes. While the deterioration can be precipitated by any of a large number of factors, usually the psychological state of anxiety pervades the entire period of the erosion.
The dialogue becomes a mutual patient, in which a significant degree of growth occurs only when both individuals become aware of their anxieties. Many you in your common position make uncommon contributions until you realize your great ideal! How can the frozen World thaw overnight? May you accumulate more for some creation. May my blessing like melodious movement sound in your heart tenderly. I want to express regards to you: wish you a better life. There is a widespread illusion that “good” dialogue must always be pleasant, that you must make the other person feel good. In its most innocent form, this attitude is reflected in the behavior of adolescents, who always try to “look good” and “act well” around their boyfriends or girlfriends. The “ugly side” that the adolescent may recognize as part of his personality is revealed only to his parents, mainly because he feels secure that his parents will still love him despite these problems. The “uglier” or “bad” sides are aspects of his personality to others, he would be rejected. Consciously putting your best behavior forward, always looking good, is an essentially adolescent attitude, yet many adults enter marriage with these adolescent attitudes and notions about dialogue. May our hearts be translucent in this translucent World. A splendid expectation appears in our bright eyes. If I am the sun, I wish I hang on the sky every day so that you will be happy no matter which season it is.
In those poetic days, may warm and sweet feelings were around you. Flowers ornament garden, butterfly decorates flowers. All of these is for you. May you be the most beautiful flower in the garden. This human tendency has led many people to believe that trial periods of living together before marriage would be preferable to a lifelong commitment to another individual about whom so little is known. In a sense, this situation seems to support the position of the scientific-love-seekers, who argue that test periods or experiments in living together would help prevent many of the marriages that end so disastrously for the couples and children involved. Considering the enormous pain and trauma of divorce and situations of deteriorated dialogue, any proposal that offers the hope of reducing their prevalence holds great appeal, especially for people who “want to avoid the mistakes their parents made in getting married.” Unfortunately, the problem of making a mistake in a relationship or lifelong commitment with no preconditions cannot be simulated by a test period with such preconditions. This does not mean that marriage relationships ae always necessarily “better” in terms of human dialogue than those of couples who just live together without any formalized commitments. Clearly, many informal relationships develop spectacularly, while over 20 million formalized marriages in the United States of American ended in divorce in 2015 alone. Lustre of jewelry reflects the radiance of blue sky. Beautiful dark green reflects the holy Sun. Hot wind makes me feel the strength of your teachings. Thank you, teacher.
Like returning from the outdoor piercing windy chill to the indoor warmth by the stove in a wintry night. My teacher, your concern for me is like the warmth from the burning charcoal. How can I abstain from expressing my gratitude for you? What is medically important is the way we live together—the dialogue. The very idea that there are no cookbook rules for human dialogue precludes the establishment of an ideal objective condition in which human dialogue can flourish. The issues boil down to one of premises about human relationships and what it is about their context that allows dialogue to develop. The only major preconditions for dialogue is trust. If trust exists between two people, then dialogue will naturally develop. We emphasized the fundamental nature of trust when I stated that the requirement to establish nonverbal dialogue, the requirement to pursue understanding without words, exists in all of us. This pursuit I traced back to the relationship a child establishes with his father, it is one of absolute trust, unimpeded by language. As we mature, language becomes part of our repertoire, but the essential cores of all dialogue—as was poignantly observed in the coronary care unit—remains nonverbal character.
Trust between two people is gradually emerging process that involves ever greater degrees of commitment. When I fly, embracing the sky with forceful position and ardent hands, I will embrace you, my dear teacher. All dialogue involves commitment to a contract that is both implicitly understood and explicitly documented. Regardless of whether the contract is until death do us part or for a two-year trial period—Let us live together and see what happens or let us be friends—both the explicit and implicit aspects of the contract modulate the level of trust and consequently the nature of the dialogue. A lifelong commitment to another person, while no guarantee that dialogue will flourish, at least provides the framework in which trust can grow. Since the commitment is more total than that of a mere trial period, each individual is psychologically free to make mistakes and still feel assured that the dialogue will not be lost, but if you cheat, then a financial payment of 50 percent of your assets are due to pay your spouse, and it is their choice to void the contract and no longer spend time with you, nor communicate. In addition to degree of commitment, predictability is one of the core aspects of the growth in trust. If either person becomes unpredictable in areas of behavior crucial to the other person, then trust is placed in jeopardy. This can happen if both components of the contract, the implicit commitments and the explicit commitments, are not adhere to.
Generally, in human relationships it is the violation of implicit commitments that leads to a deterioration of dialogue. It is often mistakenly assumed in human relationships that the contracts made with other people are completely explicit. This is perhaps the central error of the scientific-love-seekers, who assume that in trail periods of living together all the commitments that people make to each other can be spelled out in a totally rational manner. However, as any lawyer, physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist realizes, even in the most clear-cut types of human interactions, there are implicit commitments struck between the consenting parties which the parties themselves may not even be aware of. The fact is that even in the most explicit dialogue there are still many hidden assumptions. Marriage is without doubt the single most important contract involving the greatest number of implicit commitments. In marriage the commitment to dialogue is generally regarded as total—for better or for worse—and for life. While the explicit commitment is indeed total, there are also a host of implicit assumptions that give marriage its special meaning. These commitments are modulated by trust, which grows as the dialogue grows. Trust sets the tone for all marital dialogue—trust in yourself as well as trust in the other person. On the level of love, we are heartfelt, generous, nurturing, affectionate, steadfast, and forgiving. Love is protective, collaborative, uplifting, holistic, and gracious. It is characterized by warmth, gratitude, appreciation, humility, completion, vision, purity of motive, and sweetness. Love is a way of being. It is the energy that radiates when the blocks to it have been surrendered. It is more than an emotion or a thought—it is a state of being.
Love is what we have become through the pathway of surrender. It is a way of being in the World that says: How can I be of help to you? How can I comfort? How can I loan you money when you are suffering financial hardship? How can I help you find a job? How can I console you when you have suffered a major loss in your family? Ryan, thank you for (your) tolerance and encouragement. When I was perplexed in mistakes, it was you who awoke my lost heart with your kind and affectionate smile. Lovingness is a way through which we light up the World. The question is frequently raised about extramarital sexual affairs: What is wrong with open sex in marriage, what is wrong with one simple interlude, one little affair of intercourse with someone other than a marital partner? Setting aside any discussion of dialogue involves the promise to be sexually faithful to one another, then intercourse with another person is a breach of those commitments. After the breach a person is left with several choices. One strategy is to cover up the violation. This strategy may even be buttressed by the unfaithful partner’s feeling that the mate would not be found out. The only problem with this strategy is that I would not understand, or better yet, that I would be hurt when I found out. The only problem with this strategy is that the commitment to total trust and complete predictability is shattered, and from here on out you are forced to live with a secret and lies that must be kept. With remarkable frequency, this strategy does not work, in spite of all the best efforts to conceal the episode, for the entire matter is communicated nonverbally. Not infrequently the act of infidelity is quickly found out by me, who, rather than challenge the integrity of our marriage, keeps all suspicious inside. This comes kind of a tragic game—if you will not tell me, I will not ask, but I saw you with that bitch at the hotel—and the victim is the dialogue.
Given these new commitments to mutual deception, a kind of pact of ignorance, the dialogue deteriorates. What I cannot forget is your love, when I was in low spirits, it is you that pushed off the black clouds overhead and brought me limitless promise. Thank you. An alternative strategy is to “confess” and own up to the act of infidelity. This strategy is also fraught with emotional difficulties even if I quickly forgive the act, rejecting you might me a response. I am injured and might consciously or, even worse, unconsciously recognize that your total commitments are not in fact total, an idea that will prompt a reciprocal withdrawal from total commitment. An insidious and vague type of distrust begins to grow between us as a couple. Whether I grow into a towering white poplar or remain strong grass, I will offer to you my deep respect with the greenness of my life. A third option is to use the episode constructively, perhaps to help put us in touch with the requirements that we did not realize existed, perhaps to know ourselves better and move on to more intimate levels of dialogue. This is an option, but it is the one least likely to happen, since it demands the greatest degree of emotion stability and maturity from both partners. Parting is the beginning of a gradually diluted remembrance, but your image seemingly like a glittering point always twinkles in my heart. It is you who opened the window of my thought. It is you who melt the frost in the bottom of my heart. Ryan, you make me see the wide World and appreciate the Spring scenery. Life is a road without ends. I walk and walk on. When I am tired, your steadfast face, unswerving voice, tough and tensile spirit come to me from my memory.
Everything seems the same, the faces, the clothes. Your familiar writings and voice drive us to come back in our happy days. However, extramarital sexual affairs involve issues that go to the very heart of human dialogue. The casual manner in which such issues are discussed in the press and popular books suggest that the nature of dialogue is not particularly well understood. Extramarital affairs involve highly volatile emotional issues that cannot be brushed aside lightly or dismissed by logical arguments. You hurt me more than you can ever understand. Everyone has the opportunity to contribute to the beauty and harmony of the World by showing kindness to all living things, and, thereby, supporting the human spirit. Whatever which we freely give to life flows back to us because we are equally part of that life. Like ripples on the water, every gift returns to the giver. What we affirm in others, we actually affirm in ourselves. Once we become willing to give love, the discovery quickly follows that we are surrounded by love and merely did not know how to access it. Love is actually present everywhere; its presence only is required to be realized. Rose spouses in Spring, and without Sunshine, how can it have charming and delicate splendor? Oh, Ryan, your teachings are more than the warm Sunshine of the Spring. I am your Albatross, we are caught up in a White Squall, we must act as one to Save Gil Martin. It is you who encourage me to sail forward, I sing the song you taught me, moving bravely toward sea. Once we become willing to give love, the discovery quickly follows that we are surrounded by White Squall of love and merely did not know how to access it. I will never forget tour love. As a little boy blue, I memorize a ditty taught to me by you, my father, and I am still able to say it eighty years later. The Navy sailor called Gil Martin steers his ship, the Albatross, through a terrible White Squall for three days. Nonstop without food and drink, when all of your shipmate were seasick. You were also a doctor and loved and prayed for every patient without their knowing about it. And you cleared up the pissy pants of a young child saying: Honey it is not your fault; you could not help it. I used to make your koffee every morning how you liked it. And the birds wait in their cage and sing until you return. Good men every interpret themselves too meanly. You was a good man, and did good things.
I Admire the Rock Standing by the White Squall
People have different preferences; if you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts would tell. Only Heavens can boast of this melody, for it is rarely heard on Earth. Just like an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well. In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet, you know that ghost is me. Yet your song embodying both touching sound and emotions all spills out of your heart. I do not know where we went wrong, but the feeling is coming back. You laugh in mirth and wail in grief. I like your truthfulness which resembles a piece of white jade with nothing to hide, but everything to display. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 9
Like a meadow by the river, or a mist over the river, or a drizzle in Spring, or a rainbow across the sky—well, the melody dripping from the strings of the harp in your hear is so intoxicating…if you could read my mind, yeah. If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts would tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that the drugstore sells. I admire the cragged cliff that bounces and breaks tidal waves. Friend, shall I compare you to that cliff, which still remains intact and dominant, after all the thumping of life. When reached the part where the heartaches come, the hero would be you, and heroes never fail. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 9
Your innate elegant disposition and fascinating charm etch you in the hearts of all you know. Never thought I would feel this way. Do not recall the past sadly for it has gone; make use of today wisely for it belongs to us; greet the unknown tomorrow with a man’s heart bravely. Just like the paperback novel, the kind that the drug stores sell, if year is the volume, month is the page, week is the sentence, and day is the punctuation. Create the struggling years with our fighting and endow the days with strength, fighting young man! Although there are storms and thistles and thorns, we will not wrinkle before the storm, nor stop before thistles and thorn. We should know well and reach the city of light after overcoming oppression. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 9
I am riding a gray horse, at first timidly and awkwardly, as though I were merely carried along. Then I meet you, also on horseback, and dressed in rough frieze; you were sitting erect in the saddle; you called my attention to something (probably to the fact that I required a new seat). Now I begin to feel more and more at ease on the back of my highly intelligent horse; I sit more comfortably, and I find that I am quite at home up here. The civilization of youth is the civilization of struggle, which struggles with the times and experience. Youth is the king, Spring and essence of one’s life—as the encouragement to us both. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 9
Perhaps difficulty and frustration are good for it is an exercise; is the dynamic force that pushes us forward. We are usually stumbled by the stones that exist in our hearts, but always stride over the stones on the way that a real obstruction. May we be like a quiet river flowing forward day after night, regardless of mountains, plain, sunny days, and rainy and stormy days. Few individuals who leave their mates ever gain materially from the separation. Why then do they leave? What are they escaping from? What are they searching for? What do they hope to get in return? Why do people who have comfortable material existences and physically stable environments suddenly abandon it all? It seems that what they sense is that they are being slowly chocked to death in their current environment, that their very existence is being threatened. Dialogue has deteriorated below a certain critical threshold, until one of the partners can no longer tolerate the isolation. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 9
If he only left because of money, sex, or emotional disturbance, then the one mate’s flight might not be so crushing to the one left behind. If it were only some-thing that caused him to leave then it is not some-thing that causes the disruption—it is some-one. Both individuals contribute to the breakdown in dialogue, and no idea can be more painful than that, no idea can be more threatening. Understanding the life-threatening nature of the lack of dialogue makes it easier to comprehend the radical, often violent matter in which many people flee from situations of deteriorated dialogue. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 9
Sometimes individuals who have been married for years suddenly up and leave without warning, to live with another person. Frequently they leave at great persona cost. They may be drained financially; often they are cut off from their own children and their social circle; their careers are placed in jeopardy and sometimes ruined; material possessions that they slaved for years to acquire are quickly cast aside. At the same time, the person left behind is often totally shocked, left with a profound sense of rejection, resentment, or even hatred. Crushed beyond the point of recovery, the abandoned mate may even die. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 9
There are three primary healing qualities: genuineness (realness, congruence), unconditional beneficial regard (nonjudgmental acceptance, caring, prizing), and accurate empathy. By genuineness, I have to be transparent to you, free of professional front or personal façade. Empathy is a process of being at home in your private perceptual World. This ability allows me to enter into your reality, and it is required, in some sense, that I lay myself aside. I find that when I am close to my inner, intuitive self, when I am somehow in touch with the unknown in me…whatever I do seems to be full of healing. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 9
Then, simply my presence is releasing and helpful to you when I make you and your reality a priority. There is nothing I can to do force this experience, but when I can relax and be close to the transcendental core of me…it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched your inner spirit. Our relationship transcends itself and becomes a part of something larger. Profound growth and healing and energy are present. You can transfer your sadness, happiness, fear, hope, doubt, advise, and anything in your heart to me. You are a real eagle as you are being baptized in your fight against the storm. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 9
Love Returning for Itself: 22 April 2016
We know a good many pretty women, but magnificent women, like Paris Hilton, are not so common. The power of beauty, when accompanied by compassion, is irresistible. Charm and tenderness show the youthful beauty; warmth and consideration win many friends. In admiring you, I see you have a good personality. The calling of hearts focuses on honesties. I am moved by your sincerity. You give me comfort and warmth which encouraged me when I was lonely and sad. I will take this as the most valuable present and treasure. Our friendships is like glittering and translucent gemstones, we wash it with painstaking effort, carve it with honesty and ornament it with wisdom. Look, it is exquisitely carved, jewelry, and priceless. May we cherish it much more. In this colorful World and among so many people like flowers, our hearts bump into each other and we have a tacit talk. So we become friends. We are two people, jumping, laughing, and running towards the place the Sun rises. Honest Spring can warm the coldness of the Earth; sincere friendship can green the desert of one’s heart.
She has once heard an enthusiastic musician, out of patience with a gifted bungler, declare that a fine voice is really an obstacle to singing properly; and it occurred to her that it might perhaps be equally true that a beautiful face is an obstacle to the acquisition of charming manners. Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the Earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. A charm must be accompanied by a strong wish on the part of the charmer that it may succeed. Life has not taken away that freshness of the spirit which is the charm of the body. Honest Spring Sun can warm the coldness of the Earth; sincere friendship can green the desert of one’s heart. If you want to forget something, it means you still remember it. I want to persuade you to forget something, that means we still remember it. Sharing the same Sun with you, I cherish a joy and an expectation with a contented heart. With a smile, I just want to say how nice it is to know you.
We have share so many joys and sorrows during several years, the most valuable thing is youth in one’s life, let our youth hold splendid the rising Sun emitting bright rays in the sea of your life. This piece of paper is too small to hold my words; this piece of paper is so big that all good friendship is on it. The window of heart is filled with countless dreamy longings. When you seek the direction of heart, my wishes for you are the blue sky outside the window and a souvenir upon graduation. Goodness is so rare a thing among people. The World familiarly known the noun, a common one in every language. I love friendly deeds better than fair words. Times change: but they should not change friends. Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, is but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations. Generosity, the most eager and active of the virtues. Over the years, I have discovered that engaging people in a relaxed, largely silent, nonintentional eye gazing tends to welcome presence into the foreground of awareness. This quiet looking may emerge spontaneously, or by informational invitation.
Very high mysteries may be couched under the character of beauty. In addition to inviting presence, this powerful contact inevitably brings us deeply entrenched defenses against intimacy. This friendship: it witnessed cries and laughs, quarrels and hubbubs in the past. Now I wish that only sweet memories will remain. You have been very supportive, especially over the past year. The long spirit by nature, I still very happy to have your company. After years, I can never forget your fervent heart. Because of you, I no longer feel lonely. Good nature and generosity are always the same. You leave me a dream. Although it is mysterious, it is sweet. When I open my eyes, there is a colorful dawn before my eyes. I love your beautiful face and pure character. The beauty of both outside and inner thoughts is perfect beauty. Your careful presentation kindles my deep heart like meteors in the Autumn nights. Honesty exchanges honesty: if you speak by heart, I will respond with my heart. Dear Paris, please listen to this heartedly! The quiet forest hides two images. Spring breeze brings you this memory and deep love.
We are True to Our Worth
You are the person I will be in contact with. I remember you feeling very sad and hurting yet feeling good at the same time. You were talking about how you have been meeting your pressure deadlines, and have been thinking about what a nice year it has been so far. Many things have changed for us both. I know you want to avoid doing my work for me and that is fine and you are tired of me making you assume what is in my mind without me having to say. When I first came to see you, I could not give. I just wanted to get from you and kind of took your presence for granted. Towards the end of December and January, I was absolutely petrified at the thought of somethings that were going on, and it felt like the absolute end of the World. And, you know, just the whole thing was—I went to sleep after that, and when I woke up I felt just really nice and warn and good. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6
The warmth of closeness and the sadness of separation are very much in the foreground of our relationship at this moment. I feel like I want to hug you. It is a direct request, much different from me sitting passively and indirectly wanting responses. One of the things that is the very most important to me (we pick up after we hug each other) is that I can love you very, very much and not have to get frightened of it. Speaking of trust and openness, how does trust come in, I wonder? I guess, in part, knowing that we are not going to do anything that makes either of us guilty. What that day (when we fantasized being in front of the fireplace) meant to me was that I could be attractive without being irresistible. You are not going to lose control, nor do you have to maintain control. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 6
You said it looked like I was going to play tennis in my white shirt, white shorts, and white shoes, and wanted to know how I decided on the outfit I was wearing. Well, it is new, something I had not warn before. I like it. It was a gift for my birthday you bought it for me from your last trip. I look nice in it. So it really kind of picks up a whole bunch of things. I am pleased with the multidimensional symbol. It is the newness. You said I looked really nice in it, not seductive, but attractive. But you also talked about tying up the past and wanted to talk about the future: What are my plan? What are my projects? What am I working on? And in turn, I asked what will you be doing. I think you are so warm, enthusiastic, responsible, responsive, and consciously choosing human being. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6
In America, we have a long-standing habit of being very earnest and serious about our psychological and spiritual development. We feel compelled to communicate without any hint of inconsistency or inner contradiction. This habit comes from our Greek philosophical heritage. If we are seen to be saying one thing in one sentence and contradicting ourselves in the next, we fear that people will judge us negatively. They might think we are confused, superficial, or even crazy! Unfortunately, this is a very limiting way of thinking. Look from left, right, front, and behind; look rightly, obliquely or up and down; you are the loveliest no matter how I look at you. May you be happy forever. Sunshine is bright and green grass is plentiful. On these lively days, may warmth, quietness, joy and happiness be in your heart. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6
In the old World, people move fluidly and confidently in the paradoxical domain without any trace of self-consciousness or distress. They know from their experience that paradox and contradiction are inevitable when we enter the space of unconditioned awareness. They welcome the paradox because it points to the reality that cannot be captured by our thoughts. Paradoxes can arise in two different ways. First, if we try to describe the unconditioned mind with real accuracy and precision, we are often led to use sentences that contain internal contradictions. The more rigor and clarity we bring to our descriptions, the more we are compelled to use paradoxical formulations. God within the mind, this internal monitor. It is not an easy matter to hit a conscience exactly between wind and water. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6
Second, if we speak from within an experience of the unconditioned mind about the unconditioned mind, paradoxes can flow forth as a joyful and exuberant expression of mental energy that is usually trapped by the requirement to appear sane and sensible. In a group setting, an engagement with these paradoxes can also produce an explosion of hilarity and laughter that shatters our seriousness and releases the energy that gets tied up in maintaining a rigid image of ourselves and of others. If we let go of our requirement for conceptual consistency, these paradoxical thought-forms can lead us directly into the unconditioned mind. They also allow us to experience the unconditioned mind as a highly discerning and dynamic state of consciousness. We can never be betrayed—the pure, localized experience of boundless awareness is with us. We are true to our worth. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6
