“One cannot seek happiness, for it is the result of realizing the Truth. The personality, which has security and pleasure as its aims, cannot be happy. Pursuing pleasure or safety will entail covering up any unpleasant or frightening truths. This automatically closes Joy. For Joy is the radiance of the heart when Truth is appreciated.”

― A.H. Almaas, The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being, an Object Relations Approach

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The more you reject something in yourself, the more you tear yourself apart because that something is you. It doesn’t matter what it is — hatred, or frustration, or love, or grandiosity, or anything else; if you’re trying to push it away, sweep it away, get rid of it, what results is a tremendous tearing apart of the soul. It affects you that way even though you don’t know it.

From The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence, ch. 8, p. 89