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If, as I do, you want to take seriously the experience of thousands of yogis throughout the millennia who emphasize that the fundamental nature of existence feels like bliss (i.e., Eros, pleasure, enjoyment), then it's worth getting really suspicious about your relationship with reality whenever you're not blissful. In other words, if the content of your experience feels awful, if your thoughts are grim, your energy leaden, your feelings flush with self-pity: I suggest getting very, very curious about what element of reality you're denying, repressing, and hiding from.
Existential Kink
Carolyn Elliott
Until people come awake, they are simply accepting or rejecting their image of you. They’ve fashioned an image of you, and they’re rejecting or accepting that. See how devastating it is to go deeply into that. It’s a bit too liberating. But how easy it is to love people when you understand this. How easy it is to love everyone when you don’t identify with what they imagine you are or they are. It becomes easy to love them, to love everybody.
Awareness
Anthony De Mello and J. Francis Stroud
Another commonly raised concern about the dharma is that it could take the joy out of life.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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