Robert Augustus Mast

Author/psychotherapist/spiritual teacher, with a special emphasis on deep healing and awakening, and on finding freedom through intimacy with all that we are.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

I see no point in my continuing to post on Twitter.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Unhealthy shame catalyzes our inner critic, whereas healthy shame catalyzes our conscience.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Staying present with your shame takes far more courage than riding it into aggression or emotional withdrawal.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

My latest book is now out as a Free download. Here's the link: https://t.co/ccgMnf5fMh

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Two spaces left in my July 23-29 Professional Training.

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Evidence means nothing
to true believers
even if it proves they’re in
the grip of deceivers
unless they depart their trance
and take the floor
for a deeper dance

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

The tendency to dehumanize others infects just about all of us, however much we may keep it out of sight, tucked away deep in our shadow. Those we dehumanize are rendered sufficiently “other” to us so that we can justify treating them as less than human.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

My wife Diane's CDs (O Breathe Us Deep and Emergence) are now free downloads! Wonderfully expressive of embodied spirituality and deeply healing breakthrough. Go to this link to download them: https://t.co/HijZJFVtRw

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Don't numb yourself to your numbness.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

The broken heart, if held with sufficient compassion, opens us to unbroken Being.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

What we won’t dance with, what we refuse to cultivate intimacy with, what we’re so ambitious to shed or transcend, is precisely the dance-partner we need — and need to approach — drawing forth from us the very aversion, tension, and pain that’s crying out for compassion.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Does it matter if the lemmings are thinking that they’re all one as their momentum takes them, favored or not, over the precipice?

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Avoiding Death deadens us.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

My wife Diane's CDs (O Breathe Us Deep and Emergence) are now free downloads! Wonderfully expressive of embodied spirituality and deeply healing breakthrough. Go to this link to download them: https://t.co/ty013pLmMd

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Making the ground of a relationship unnecessarily unstable — as when certain boundaries are overridden or trivialized in the name of “freedom” — keeps our relationship from being as deep and fulfilling as it could be.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Before we can embody a truer life, we need to be able to remain present and grounded not only in the presence of discomfort, unpleasantness, and opposition, but also in the presence of our reactivity and aversion to such challenges.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Go to the heart of your pain, and you won't find more pain, but a freedom that doesn't require the absence of pain.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Even when overwhelming losses leave us rudderless, adrift in seemingly alien waters, unrestrained grief reminds us of what really matters, needing no translation, but only our permission to have its way with us.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

We cannot go out of our body because we are not in it.

[Robert Augustus Mast @RobertMasters]

Real safety in an intimate relationship doesn’t mean any sort of deadening, any kind of let’s-not-rock-the-boat pact — as is found in codependent bondage — but rather a shared space, a we-space, in which we have enough shared safety to let go of playing it safe.