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Distraction - The Ego's Favorite Defense Mechanism

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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What Happens in the Awakening Process?

If you start to do self inquiry, if you start asking yourself questions like, who am i? What am i? You start meditating, what you can immediately notice is that even when you make a little bit of progress in this consciousness work, you will fall off track. Something will come up in your life, something important, something will come and distract you. And this is the most amazing phenomenon, because it just happens over and over and over again on this path. It's not that you'r gointo get distracted once, twice or three times. Our goin toget, distracted dozens, hundreds of times. In this whole awakening process, is you just constantly being tricked over

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