evolution when you begin to care more about the process as a whole than you care about your ego's fears, desires, or concerns. And it represents the essential shift of identity that this teaching rests on: The SHIFT from the ego to the Authentic Self. When this occurs, your very motive for pursuing enlightenment evolves from one that is fundamentally self-centered to one that is focused upon the evolution of consciousness itself.
~ Andrew Cohen
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ins ALL THINGS and EVERYTHING.
I know that when I tried to involve Apple Computer, with a project to
establish a Multimedia Resource Centre in the Art and Design
faculty of Wolverhampton Polytechnic many of the people I was
involved with at the time, spoke highly of Ringling's achievements.
I very much look forward to having the opportunity of bringing my
experience to the collaborative initiative which Gregory Shepard
and the rest of the T.E.A.M. have suggested I join. A T.E.A.M. as in
Together Everyone Achieves More - a team that I would be honoured
to join and participate with.
BRAVO & ALL HAIL to Ringling and their Collaboratory Initiative.
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l analysis & appraisal, I said that there were obviously two directly opposed categories of criticism - constructive & destructive - to which he replied never ever apologise for offering constructive criticism - while all those around you perceive ALL criticism to be destructive. It was also during this particular [TIME] Linnie & I were first introduced to DIVIDED SELF, which was written by the Scottish psychiatrist R.D.Laing. Reality is not just the bad; it is also the good.
The mind requires an awareness of both in order to work at its best.
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collective content [BE]ing a mirror of my own understanding of the very juxtaposition of " separate ego & universal self " as the very basis of my own Left-handed, mirror-writing, visual cortex dominant pre-disposition, which I have made reference to in my Facebook Album entitled [BE]ing AWARE of AWARENESS [IT]self.
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lightened person, the mere act of paying attention won't really help you be more awake. It will just end up being the ego watching itself, which is like looking in the mirror. There are many different forms of spiritual practice that can help us to cultivate awareness, focus, and attention. But ONLY if we want to evolve beyond ego will paying attention have the power to shatter the ever-selective mirror of pride, narcissism, and self-concern. Andrew Cohen .…