“Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.” MayLittlesHas BeensSaidI CanEndsSelfMomentsFactsConsciousnessSilenceJourneyMovementPermanentStrokesGet OverBreakthroughSelf ConsciousnessContemplativeMilestoneContemplative LifeNew JourneyJourney Begins Book:Experience of No-Self, The: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition Source: Experience of No-Self, The: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition
“But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".” SelfMomentsHomeJoySawsSeeingMissingWalkingQuietEmptyTrackSelf RealizationHillsComing HomeValleysUsualFloodInwardCentreMissing ItPanorama Book:The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey Source: The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey
“It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown” MindSelfMomentsMovingDifficultResultsKnowingCuttingConsciousDiscoveryInevitableFixedDimensionsMechanismSelf ConsciousEver AfterEmergenceSuspended Author:Bernadette Roberts
