Mark Matousek – Writing as a Spiritual Practice Advanced
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- Your biography is not your identity — you are the storyteller, not the story
- When you discover the gap between self and story, you awaken to your authentic nature
- Your nature is open, creative, and free, connected to the source of all being and not dependent on the whims of personality
- Rooted in this authentic self, your beliefs and limitations give way to untold possibilities
- These possibilities are portals to personal change; by exploring the stories that block these portals, you liberate yourself from obsolete baggage
- This baggage is not useless, however — it contains misconstrued truths, discarded riches, and hidden gifts we’re not aware of
- Each of us has a sacred wound that motivates us in spiritual life; this wound is another portal to self-liberation
- Exploring this wound, we discover the longing that is our greatest ally on the spiritual path
- Longing reminds us to pay attention to those places where we’re not aligned with truth and goodness — where we imagine ourselves to be autonomous and disconnected from source
- We recognize that creativity, devotion, and life itself originate in a fruitful darkness that we may mistake for a terrible void
- This realization gives us courage to confront our nemeses when they arise, dissolving them in the light of attention
- Equipped with self-awareness, we no longer run from our shadows — we know that they are there to aid in our healing
- The central anxiety of our lives, termed “this terrible freedom” by philosophers, is the choice of “to be or not to be”
- Free of confusion about who we are, this question no longer haunts us, and we no longer spend our lives running in fear from the truth
- We realize how much of our lives are spent in distraction — and doing, pushing, striving, struggling, and wanting
- The antidote to doing is being — learning to pause, allowing silence, and leaving room for revelation
- Revelation only comes in the present moment — allowing ourselves to “be here now,” we gain new access to mind, heart, and spirit
- We realize that freedom always exists in the now, and that fear falls away in the absence of thinking about the things we cannot change
- In love, as in Vegas, you have to be present to play; without embodiment there’s no love, and knowing this is greatly liberating
- Regardless of its form, love is always spiritual and fueled by the selfsame source that gives us life
- Desire, attachment, and the demands of the form that love takes are not love, however human and understandable they may be — knowing this is a form of self-love
- Love is not a feeling; it’s a way of being — a verb, not a noun. We recognize love in the proofs of love.
- Our attitude toward love mirrors our approach to mystery, since love is beyond our control (we can feed it, we can’t create it) — both love and mystery require surrender
- Love invents us, not the other way around; how we love is who we become
- Sacredness is a story, not a fact; it’s entirely subjective, even when shared by a faith group
- The “personal sacred” is part of everyday life, a different “angle of vision” that sacralizes experience moment to moment
- Knowing what we hold sacred strengthens us on our journey of faith, however we define that
- The sacred is always connected to love and what we value as individuals
- Sacredness ennobles experience by elevating the mind and spirit
- Through imagination, we’re connected to the Divine using the language of the sacred
- Awe and wonder are hard-wired faculties in the human brain, designed to give access to higher dimensions of experience
- Awe happens when we encounter something vast or unexpected that cannot be accommodated by the existing structures of the mind
- A life without wonder and awe is diminished, flattened, and absent of a transcendent perspective
- Addiction is the symptom of an awe-deprived world, attempting to replace the Divine with pleasure, to fill the God-sized hole within us with distractions
- Epiphany is the experience of recognizing the extraordinary in the ordinary — seeing “eternity in a grain of sand”
- Encountering your authentic self inspires wonder and great satisfaction
- When we stop judging ourselves (the false self) we enter a whole new way of life
- With nothing to defend, there’s less aggression; with nothing to prove, there’s less struggle and more wellbeing
- Writing becomes an ongoing spiritual practice that allows us to become our own witness, our own healer, our own awakener
- We learn to ask essential questions that liberate us on an everyday basis, seeing insight when pain arises, and knowing that we are not that pain
- Equipped with self-knowledge, we lay claim to our birthright of happiness and awakening in this lifetime
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