quinta-feira, janeiro 15, 2015

Alguma Palavras - XLVI


To transcend something is to go beyond it to the point of ceasing to identify with it, so that it becomes an object of our awareness. When this process are healthy, what’s been transcended is not excluded from our being (any more than clouds are excluded from the sky), but rather is ‘repositioned’ and related to in ways that serve our well-being. When transcendence is unhealthy, what has been transcended is excluded from our being, resulting in escapism and disconnection. Where healthy transcendence embraces what’s being transcended, unhealthy transcendence avoids It, making a spiritual virtue out of rising above whatever is deemed ‘lower’ or ‘darker’ elements of our nature. This is dissociation disguised in holy drag.

- Robert Augustus Masters, Ph. D, "Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnect Us from What Really Matters", p. 29

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