Being Consciousness BlissSteinerBooks, 2002 - 336 من الصفحات Many people are looking for a deeper and richer spiritual life. They sense that there is more to their existence than the surface of life seems to offer, but they are confused and uncertain about where to look and how to begin. Being Consciousness Bliss is a rich, profound, and eminently accessible compendium of wisdom that will help orient people toward a more fruitful spiritual search. Drawing on a dazzling array of sources, including the insights of G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky as well as the spiritual traditions of the East, it gives a clear and compelling account of the true inner structure of the human being and how it may be developed to its full potential. Part One discusses the current human condition -- the "sleep" of ordinary life -- and how a person may begin to wake up from it. Part Two offers a feast of excerpts from the Perennial Philosophy -- the great wisdom tradition that underlies all cultures and religions -- to feed and nurture the growth of the soul. Part Three provides simple ways to put these insights into practice in daily life. Clear, sensible, and erudite, Being Consciousness Bliss is a resource, suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners, to be used and treasured for many years. "Following Aldous Huxley, Astrid Fitzgerald's tireless pursuit of an inner path is sure to awaken the heart to bliss and rouse spirit to behold." --David Appelbaum, editor of Parabola Magazine "This book is equal parts wisdom, beauty, and inspiration. Astrid Fitzgerald opens the insights of the ages for anyone to follow. Highly recommended." --Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words "Astrid Fitzgerald's Being Consciousness Bliss is a well-researched, clearly written account of the essential teachings given by all the major wisdom traditions, which all teach that we are one human family." -- Sri Swami Satchidananda, Founder & Spiritual Head, Integral Yoga International /Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville |
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... we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminalwaysthat are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened ...
... weare attached toit.Wearethe slaves of our conditioning, our desires, and our technology. We have an insatiable passion for “more” of the physical kind — pleasure, comfort, gadgets, information — and we believe we cannot live ...
... we are, wefirstneed to be reminded of our truenature; thenwe have to verify the greattruths for ourselvesand realize them inour ownbeing. We ... weare, thatwhichwe are notwill dissolve and with it all our illusions and attendant miseries.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
المحتوى
Where WeFindOurselves | |
Existential Crisis | |
First Steps on the Quest | |
Language and Meaning 7 Search for a Teaching 8 Existence and Consciousness | |
The Human Instrument 11 The Fully Realized Being | |
PART | |
God Creator Brahman | |
Experience Delight and Bliss | |
Freedom Union Enlightenment | |
To RealizetheDivine 25 Invocations Precepts and Hymns ofPraise PART THREE | |
UNCOVERING THE SELF | |
Introduction | |
A Word to theReader 1 WhatIs SpiritualWork? 2 The Decision | |
Preparing the Ground | |
Cleaning Out Clutter | |
Love Beauty and the Good | |
Wisdom Truth and Knowledge | |
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The Soul and the Psyche | |
Illusion Maya | |
Ignorance Suffering and the | |
Awakening and SelfKnowledge | |
Aspiration and the Path | |
Spiritual Struggle 15 The HomeSociety andthe World 16 Work andDevotion 17 Necessary Virtues 18 Detachmentand Serenity 19 Meditation Reflect... | |
Awakening in Creation | |
Putting the House in Order | |
Working with the Forces | |
Adversityand Suffering | |
The FiveVeils of Illusion 9 The Impostor 10 Meditation 11 Detachment and Dispassion | |
Attentionandthe Eternal | |
How toSpenda Day Nobly EXERCISES | |
Conscious Listening and Speaking | |