‘The Three Principles is not a self-improvement course, trying to improve what is. Rather, it is understanding the nature of what is.’
DR DICKEN BETTINGER
To me, the leverage in this conversation is the latter part of this book. It’s great to understand how our psychological system works and it’s somehow easier to grasp. For me, it gave me enough of an understanding not to believe everything I already think and allowed my mind to quieten enough to consider what I have shared in the second part of this book.
To realize our true nature, to see our spiritual essence gives me a huge degree of comfort. I’m much less interested in responding to what my personal preferences and thinking are telling me, or in paying attention to self-doubt and using my anxious what-iffing to determine what I get up to in life. I’m just not so interested in my little self any more, with its insatiable demands to do, be and have more so that it can secure and stabilize its inherently unstable and insecure nature. I’m more interested in exploring true Self. Mind. Pure Consciousness. Awareness. Our true nature. Whatever you want to call it. Then I can step back out into glorious technicolour of life and be immersed in the magical flow of it all.
What I hadn’t appreciated at the start of this journey was that there are infinitely deep levels of peace of mind, love and contentment to be experienced.
I just wanted to ‘get back to normal’ – that was the pinnacle of everything I could ask for in my mind. I liked being happy, sure, but that was a nice little feeling that I experienced from time to time in life. It wasn’t a priority for me, given that there were bills to be paid, children to worry about, anxiety to sort out, etc., which were all far more pressing and seemed like a far better way to spend my time. And every now and again, in my self-development journey, I’d sign up for a ‘pursuit of happiness’ course and end up creating vision boards and making lists of what would ‘make me happy’ – all of which just seemed to take me further away.
Now I see there’s a feeling that’s way deeper than ‘happiness’. I’ve tried to describe it at several points in this book and it feels as though I can never do it justice with my descriptions. But then again… I don’t need to because you already know it.
And there are infinitely deep levels of exploring this. Every time I feel like I’ve reached the end of what there is to see, the rug gets pulled from under my feet and I realize there’s so much more.
I feel so much quieter inside. And yet when I have conversations with my teachers and mentors who have a deeper understanding than me, I know they experience me as still speeded up.
When we’re pointed in this direction (and even when we’re not), we all have the capacity for more insight into truth. It’s inevitable. There’s nothing we need to do to make that happen, just knowing where to look is enough. The rest is Mind’s job.
Same for you. The fact that you’ve read all the way to this point means that something is landing for you, starting to shift for you, and that the veils are starting to drop away. We have no way of knowing what the implications of what you’re seeing will be, but the transformation has definitely begun.
I’m in awe of the journey and have such gratitude that it came into my life. At this point I can’t quite believe that my experience of life and all it has to offer can be more wonderful than it currently seems to be.
But I know I’m probably wrong.
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