Nervous Conditions

S: The real changes I’ve seen in my life all happened when I was totally beside myself, and feeling that if I didn’t stop something, whatever it was, that I would be dead in a few days or minutes. I was feeling desperate, and I don’t think people can trust those states.

AH: My dear friend, it is always desperate like that-we just don’t see it. You think of physical death as a bad thing. What happens to most people is worse. It’s always a desperate condition. This is one of the truths you need to see. You have to look at your assumptions and ideas and see that things could be different from what you think. You thought at one time you were in a desperate situation, and I see that you are always in a desperate situation. You might cover it over. People cover up their desperateness and hopelessness and everything else. Most of the time people are desperately trying to do something. There is always this feverish movement going on inside, always. If you really look at yourself deeply you will see that.

- A.H. Almaas, Diamond Heart, Book 2, p. 115 (“Change and Truth”)

New A. H. Almaas Book

Apparently, a new book by A. H. Almaas is coming out on June 10, 2008:

The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence

Is he moving in on Eckhart Tolle’s territory?

Our love for our children and for the human race…

The greatest and most devastating ignorance of humanity is perpetuated in the daily lives of families. Most of us do not want such knowledge or perception; it is too painful and frustrating to confront our fears and illusions. But our love for our children and for the human race might give us the courage to face these issues and allow us to look inward to find the true harmony of Being.

- A. H. Almaas, Pearl Beyond Price (p. 249)

The Holy Truth

The Holy Truth includes everything – including guilt and self-blame. It is all-inclusive and all-encompassing; otherwise it would not be holy. The belief that some manifestations are holy and others are not, or that some people are chosen by God and others are not, is not the Holy Truth. The Holy Truth chooses all people – they are its life. This is why it is said that, “The sought becomes the seeker.” The Holy Truth itself manifests as the seeker looking for the Holy Truth. So the journey is a matter of the seeker finding out that he or she is what is sought. When we know this, we realize that there is no need for seeking.

– A.H. Almaas, Facets of Unity (96)

Inquiry

To ask a question is to not know and to know that you do not know, and to have an idea about what it is you don’t know. This is Being arising, touching you, with a possibility. Knowing unknowing is an expression of the creative unfoldent/dynamism of Being, continuous, spontaneous. Inquiry is the expression of dynamism.

Through inquiry we navigate non-knowing. When it is open it is powered by the dynamism of Being itself. This leads to freedom.

    – A. H. Almaas, Spacecruiser Inquiry (15)

Walls

So from one perspective, all you see at first are walls. From another perspectice, you see that light can get through the cracks. And then there is the broader allowing which is to see from the beginning that there are no cracks or walls or any of that. It is all the same. You ae not restricted by restrictions. Restrictions appear the same as openness. How can you be restricted by them? … The final wall that needs to be removed is the belief that there are walls, that there is a personality that needs to be dissolved. Then you are free.

– A.H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book 1 (163)

Change

But what does transformation mean? Doesn’t transformation mean that even these aims will change? Your aims belong to who you are now, and if you really change, you will change into somebody else, and that new person might not have the same aims and aspirations. If you hold onto those same aims and aspirations, those same ideas and plans, you’ll continue being the same person. There will be no change. There will be no transformation, no expansion, no development.

– A.H. Almaas, Diamond Heart, Book 1 (150)