indigochildblackjaguar: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters… Compared to wh
indigochildblackjaguar: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters… Compared to what lies within us. Thinking about oneself evokes a certain image, of a clothed body, or a face which strives to be dignified and charming. This image is only a reflection of the Personality. If we want to discover the latter, we have to penetrate more deeply, and only introspection would permit us to discover its true face. Introspection leads us to discover that there exists a sort of little ‘nebula’ within us. This is insubstantial, or almost so, but is gifted with the capacity for experiencing and thinking, for feeling emotion, and for action. An exercised and sustained attention permits us also to constate that this ‘nebula’ is mobile: it is sometimes found in the brain, and sometimes it descends to the heart and sometimes to the solar plexus. After a violent impression is made, for example after some great terror, it can move downward through the whole body to the feet. Once the emotion has passed, this ‘nebula’ normally re-ascends to a place in the higher part of the head. We then say that the person has come back to himself. Contemporary man however, worrying more about the question of appearances than about that of being, caught up in circumstances, always absent from himself, or falling during his hours of idleness into a drowsy satisfaction, can no longer feel the pulsation of life within him. To make such fundamental discoveries, he must make efforts, must exercise, and must practise inner observation. -- source link