As the founder of Youier, where I'm on a mission to inspire and equip folks to live life as the people they were created to be in active, daily relationship with their Creator, I have a vested interest in Authenticity And Us. And yes as the publisher you'd expect me to say that
Meditation is not something we do; it is something we cease to do. Thus, it could be called self-returning or self-resting. – Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware
Before I launch into the specifics of the inner lines, there are some things that are helpful to understand. First off, we need to remember the Enneagram is not making any final statement about our identity, but is showing us some customized paths of development for us. (1/3)
Ignorance is only ignorance from the ignorant point of view of ignorance. The separate self is only a separate self from the imaginary point of view of a separate self. – Rupert Spira
One of the most interesting & helpful things about the Enneagram is that it is a DYNAMIC model. Those inner lines mean something. It was never meant to be 9 boxes to file people into. No one is just one thing. I will be tweeting about these lines & the importance of the dynamism.
Effort is what grace looks like from the point of view of the separate self. If you feel you need to make the effort, make the effort, but know it is always God doing it. – Rupert Spira
Pure knowing, without a subject that knows or an object that is known, is what we are, not what we do. Thus, for our self, to know is to be, and to be is to know. – Rupert Spira, The Ashes of Love
Every time we find ourself reacting to anyone or anything, we can ask on whose behalf we are reacting. We will nearly always find that it is on behalf of a non-existent self. – Rupert Spira, The Ashes of Love
Awareness shines in each of our minds as the experience of being aware, the feeling of being or the knowledge ‘I am’. As such, the knowledge ‘I am’ is awareness’s awareness of itself. – Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware
Just as a character in a movie seems to travel the world but never actually leaves the screen, so thought seems to travel into a past and a future but never actually leaves the now. – Rupert Spira, The Ashes of Love
Enlightenment is the end of one process – thinking and feeling oneself to be a separate, limited self – but the beginning of another – the realignment of the body, mind and world with this new, experiential understanding. – Rupert Spira, The Ashes of Love
The ‘I’ of the separate self is the true and only ‘I’ of infinite awareness, seemingly mixed with and, therefore, apparently limited by the objective qualities of experience. – Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware