103 - Where Does Self-Worth Come From?

11/15/21 • 1 min

Where does self-worth comes from, Anthony DeMello asks: "Do you get it from success in your work? Do you get it from having a lot of money? Do you get it from attracting a lot of men if you’re a woman or a lot of women if you’re a man?" How fragile all that is, how transitory.

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102 - Working from Preferences

Do not suppress desire, because desire is energy and the more energy we have, the better. Don’t seek to fulfill desire so much as to understand desire. See them for what they are worth. Because if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it. Whereas if you look at it and see and understand how you may be preparing the ground for misery and disappointment and depression, your desire will then be transformed into simply a preference.

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104 - We Don’t Want to be Happy; We Want Things

A big part of why our life is a mess. It's because we don’t want to be happy; we don’t want to be at peace. We've been programmed by society want other things. Money, power, reputation. Admit it! You've been trained to believe that you cannot be happy until or unless you get this thing or that person and this result. The irony is you are happy already but don't know it.