Emotional
Your Anger Might Not Belong to You
We've been taught that emotions belong to us, that anger is 'my anger' and sadness is 'my sadness.' But what if this fundamental assumption is wrong? What if emotions are simply temporary colorings of awareness, like clouds passing through an open sky?
The mind cannot be present. Only awareness is present.— Rupert Spira
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The thinker
Non-Dual Teacher and Potter
Rupert Spira is a contemporary spiritual teacher known for his direct pointing to the nature of consciousness and reality through the non-dual understanding.
Based on Make Awareness Your Home, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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