Another aspect of openness is intimacy. The quickest access to Truth, and also to beauty, is when you are totally intimate with all of experience, the inner and the outer... When you are being intimate with the whole of experience, the divided mind has to let go of whatever its project is at the moment. In this intimacy, one becomes very open and discovers vastness. Whether the qualities of the experience are unpleasant or beautiful, as soon as you are intimate with the whole of experience, there is openness.
~Adyashanti
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And so much truth in it...I wish everyone had this perspective truly...
Kuan Gung,
I feel the truth in this, too. Not everyone has this perspective, but sometimes Existence helps us along by offering intense experiences we cannot ignore. These are the times when we come face to face with (and become intimate with) the whole of an experience and begin to really discover it.
true intimacy... is complete surrender...
the "divided mind" can not hold on... when surrender is happening... and the openness and vastness of this Self... is revealed... ahhh... lovely,
Thanks Meredith.... and Adya...! :)
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