Page 178 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 7

“Lion hearted men alone dare approach reality”
meditation look closely for all of the inner wisdom and efforts to pay us handsomely. If we cannot see some thought or feeling as it goes through us, then we do not have the choice whether to be that thought or feeling or not.
So, before we can choose not to compromise ourselves, we must first become acutely and intensely aware of those thoughts of ours that may be holding some secret seed of self-defeat. If we do not know that we are doing this kind of compromised thinking or acting out the emotional counterparts what else can follow but defeat in our endeavour. For example, the lower mind through its harmful inner voices and emotional forces may tell us to resent someone or to hate our life; or to give up, and accept fear as a way of life. Our own thoughts may instruct us, without our ever knowing it, to cling to doubts; or to jump headlong into pools of self-pity. And because we do not know that there are alternatives, we do as we are instructed by our lower mind.
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