Top Highlights

• This is something many people don’t know they’re signing up for when they start on a quest for spiritual awakening. As a teacher, one of the things that I find out about students relatively early on is whether they are interested in the real thing—do they really want the truth, or do they actually just want to feel better?
• But because we’ve awakened does not mean that consciousness has gotten past the gravitational pull of the dream state. If we haven’t gone completely beyond this gravitational field, we’re going to be pulled back toward the experience of “me” and the perception of separateness.
• “Velcro” thoughts—they are those spontaneous thoughts that occur in given situations that hook us. This type of thought causes an almost immediate reidentification with the thinking pattern. It could be a judging thought, a thought that makes one feel ashamed or small, or it could be a thought that makes one feel angry or accusatory.
• The reality that certain “sticky” thought patterns still recur after awakening comes as a bit of a disappointment to many people.
• We must see which thoughts generate which feelings, and which thoughts are generated from feelings. It is a cycle: a thought creates a feeling,