I find that the most difficult part of spiritual growth is daring to look where your ego really, really does not want you to look. It's having the courage to access those parts of your psyche that you've trained yourself for years to lock away and throw out the key
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Here's a list of questions I ask myself from time to time, normally right before doing a spiritual retreat or extended meditation
What are you refusing to admit to yourself?
What personal truths have you been trying to push away or not acknowledge?
What scares you the most?
What are you refusing to admit to yourself?
What personal truths have you been trying to push away or not acknowledge?
What scares you the most?
What is your deepest fear? What is the worst thing that can happen to you?
What do your darkest thoughts reveal to you about yourself?
What within you are you trying to hide from yourself?
What are you ashamed to admit?
What do your darkest thoughts reveal to you about yourself?
What within you are you trying to hide from yourself?
What are you ashamed to admit?
What do you want so bad that you'll bend any truth for it to be true?
What are some gaps in your memory? Why do you think your ego is hiding those memories from you?
What do you not understand about yourself that seems to be causing you the most misery?
What are some gaps in your memory? Why do you think your ego is hiding those memories from you?
What do you not understand about yourself that seems to be causing you the most misery?
And then I go into my prayer or meditation, and when I do, the word أسلمت (I submit, I accept) has a very, very different and profound meaning. It's... I will not push away at anything that comes. I will accept everything that I see. I will dare to look.
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