“Radical
Happiness
is not the happiness
of the ego – of getting what you want – but
of wanting what is.
It is the happiness
that comes from realizing that who
you think you are doesn’t even exist.”
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Radical Happiness: A Guide to
Awakeningprovides
the keys to experiencing the happiness that is always present and not
dependent on circumstances. This happiness doesn’t come from
getting what you want but from wanting what already is.
It comes from realizing that who you think you are is not who you
really are. This is a radical perspective!
Radical Happiness
describes the purpose of free will and how free it is; where drives and
desires come from; the nature of the egoic state of consciousness, the
mind’s role in maintaining it, and how this interferes with
happiness; what awakening and enlightenment are; and how to
live
in this world following awakening. Exercises are included to help you
apply the information and transform your experience of
life—and
become happier!
“It
is our destiny to awaken—to
wake up from the illusion of being a separate individual and rediscover
the truth: There is only one Being, and that Being is you!"
“There
is
nothing closer to us than the Self. It is not something we have to go
searching for. We have always been alive as the Self, but it is very
quiet and overlooked much of the time because the mind is so noisy.
Because our senses keep us focused on things instead of experience, we
often miss the experience of this moment, which is where the Self can
be felt. Who we are is not a thing but a Be-ing—we are the
experience of awareness, aliveness, joy, love, wisdom, and happiness.
And that is what the experience of every moment holds.”
Anatomy
of Desire: How to Be Happy Even When You Don’t Get What You
Want will
help you relate to your desires in a way that reduces suffering and
increases joy. It is essentially about how to be happy regardless of
your desires. It points out many of the myths about desire, which keep
you tied to them and the suffering they create. So, it is also about
spiritual freedom, or liberation, which comes from letting the Heart
guide you instead of the ego. It is ultimately about becoming a lover
of life rather than a desirer because these two things—love
and
desire—are at odds, and you must choose between them. What do
you
really want? Do you want what you want or do you want
love? –from the Introduction
“What
the ego desires is not worth desiring because it takes you away from
love.”
“You
surrender your other desires to the one desire that is
left—the
desire to be free, to be liberated from ego-identification. You
can’t have your other desires and this desire. This
doesn’t
mean you won’t ever get what you want, though, because by
'losing your self' (your ego), you gain everything. You see
that you never needed what your ego desired anyway. Once you see this,
it is easy to give up these desires. If you are everything, is there
anything that you lack? What you discover is that you lack nothing, you
need nothing, and yet everything that is meaningful is given to you in
full measure.”
Return to Essence:How to Be in the Flow and Fulfill
Your Life’s Purpose
describes how to get into the flow and stay there and how to live your
life from there. Being in the flow and not being in the flow are two
very different states. One is dominated by the ego-driven mind, which
is the cause of suffering, while the other is the domain of essence,
the divine within each of us. You are meant to live in the flow. The
flow is the experience of essence—your true self—as
it
lives life through you and fulfills its purpose for this life. Return to Essence
also explains what the flow is, how it feels, and what you find there;
what keeps you out of the flow; how action,
talking, knowing, and choosing come out of the flow; how to discover
where the flow is going; and how to find and fulfill your life's
purpose. Exercises throughout provide an opportunity for practicing and
integrating the understanding.
“You
can’t be fulfilled by someone else’s life purpose;
you can
only be fulfilled by yours. You won’t find out what that is
by
listening to the mind because it doesn’t know. Only by paying
attention to what is coming out of the flow and letting that lead you
through your life will you fulfill your life’s
purpose.”
“You
were
meant for this life you are having, not some other life, not someone
else’s life. Experiencing is the reason you are here.
However,
you are not here for just any experience but for the ones you are
having because you are the only one in this entire universe destined
for these experiences. They are designed just for you. You are
co-creating them with the Source, which is loving it all.”
Choosing
Love: A Guide to Spiritual Relationship To have
a truly meaningful relationship requires choosing love over your
conditioning, that is, your ideas, fantasies, desires, images, and
beliefs. Choosing Love
describes how to move beyond conditioning,
judgment, anger, romantic illusions, and differences to the experience
of love and Oneness with another. It explains how to drop into the core
of your Being, where Oneness and love exist, and be with others from
there. It also explains how to recognize, find, and sustain a
meaningful relationship; how to overcome judgments, demands, criticism,
and resentment; what to do and not do with anger; factors that
are most
important in compatibility; how to make joint decisions; and how to see
the Divine in the other. Exercises throughout provide an opportunity
for practicing and integrating the understanding.
“This
character in front of you is playing a part. Let that part be played,
recognize it as a part, and enjoy it. It is all a great
play—lila, as the Hindu mystics say: God playing with God in
many
forms. What fun. Essence enjoys the characters that we are. Whatever
your partner is doing or saying is fine—from
essence—because essence knows that is not the whole truth of
him
or her. Essence sees the truth about the other, and it loves the other
because the other is itself. From essence, it is clear that the other
is no different from itself. It feels and sees the sameness. It knows
only Oneness. It can’t be fooled by words and behavior and
looks.
Appearances can’t totally hide the truth. Look into your
lover’s eyes and see.”
Living
Your Destiny: How to Live the Life that Is Meant for You Your life is a dance between you as the Creator
and you as a human creator, and it is not choreographed but improvised.
Behind all life is an Intelligence, and you are part of that and a
unique expression of it and the means by which it experiences and
explores life. Your life purpose is the intent of this Intelligence as
it lives through you. Living
Your Destiny will help you identify this purpose and
inspire you to be true to it. It explains the variety of life purposes;
how to recognize your life purpose; how you are led to your life
purpose; how the Heart speaks to you; how to develop a connection with
the Heart; how to become free of your conditioning; and how to live
your life purpose fully.
“From
essence, there is a sense that life is unfolding perfectly, naturally,
and easily. Everything is just as it should be, and nothing needs to be
different. There is an appreciation that this moment is always changing
into something else and won't be this way for long, so you might as
well enjoy it or at least accept it for now. From this quiet place of
contentment, urges to do or say things arise, and these actions unfold
your life in ways that are meaningful to your life purpose. In the
quiet spaces in between your thoughts, life is unfolding perfectly, and
it is doing this through urges, drives, attractions, repulsions, and
other indications of the direction essence intends for you."
Getting Free: How to Move Beyond
Conditioning and Be Happy. Freedom from
your conditioning is possible in this lifetime, but the mind is a
formidable opponent to freedom. To be free from your conditioning
requires a new way of thinking or, rather, not thinking. Getting Free will
help you change your relationship to your mind so that you can be free.
Conditioning is healed when we meet our true Self, but to do
this we first have to become very familiar with the false self and its
mistaken beliefs. Getting
Free will help you determine what is false and true
within yourself. It will also help you reprogram your mind;
clear negative thoughts and self-images; use meditation, prayer,
forgiveness, and gratitude; work with spiritual forces to assist
healing and clear negativity; and heal entrenched issues from the past.
Exercises throughout provide an opportunity for practicing and
integrating the understanding.
“Something else is actually living this
life, and its actions are not based on thoughts or on conditioning. You
are a spiritual being who is programmed to behave like a human being,
with all sorts of conditioning. However, this spiritual being that you
are functions perfectly fine without most of your conditioning,
particularly your beliefs.”
“Healing can’t occur
without an experience of essence. It is essence that heals, and it
heals in part by bringing us a truer and more complete picture of life
and of ourselves. It counteracts and neutralizes the negativity of the
egoic mind with wisdom, peace, love, joy, and acceptance. But to
experience essence, we have to go against our programming and notice
what else is going on in the moment other than thought.”
Nothing
Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self, Second
Edition (expanded) by Nirmala, compiled and edited by Gina
Lake: “The
beauty of this collection of Nirmala’s talks and dialogues is
that it covers much of the spectrum of spiritual awakening, from the
initial experience of one’s true nature to the practical
challenges, which always call for a deeper seeing and deeper
understanding of how spirit manifests as all of life and
beyond.…Nirmala welcomes whatever arises within the field of
experience. In the midst of this welcoming is always an invitation to
inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and
again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond
to the very source of existence itself—to the faceless
awareness
that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless
embrace.” –From the foreword by
Adyashanti.
“What
cuts through suffering is simply choosing to love what is in every
moment. It’s not more complicated than that. You just meet
whatever is arising with passion and gratitude, no matter how often it
appears—because that isn’t up to you. If it were,
your old
conditioning would have been done a long time ago, right? The
invitation is to find out for yourself what happens when you are
willing to waste your desire on what is. Don’t take my word
for
it. For just this moment, meet whatever is present with a passionate
embrace, and then see if you can find any suffering here.”
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