Ram Dass on Bearing the Unbearable
If
you don’t use the part of the mind that is the intuitive heart-mind, if
you don’t cultivate it and use it, you’re just left in a reactive kind
of puppetry.
It’s only
when the mind, the awareness, draws back that you have a sense of the
gestalt – you see the whole thing, and then there is nothing in you
pushing it away or grabbing at it.
In
order to be able to cultivate that level of awareness, you have to
finally come to terms with denial, because otherwise the closing of the
heart to protect from despair is too much. To that extent you are not
able to work with what is, and there is a part of you that is locked in,
closed off from the universe, and so you’re saying, “I wanna be
everything. We are all one except for this or that. But that’s too
horrible. I can’t bear that.”
What the game is about is bearing the unbearable. - Ram Dass
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