Quote from The Great Sweetening

The Great Sweetening: Life after Thought 

by Jan Frazier

EBookIt.com, Sudbury, Massachusetts, 2017.     221 pages

"We live all our lives contained in a room of our own making. Reality is what it is: mentally unfiltered life occurring, moment by moment, one day followed by another. We are there for it. But what we live in is our interpretations of things. Our elaborate and pain-inducing stories. Meanwhile, uninterpreted life goes on, at a great distance from our consciousness. Trapped in our minds, we miss life itself — the real thing.

When the door is noticed, it’s an invitation to step outside the mind-made room into actual life: immediate, sensory, unprocessed, unresisted life. What encounters this life is plain consciousness. Not the stories, beliefs, the history that we bundle together into a self that needs asserting and defending. When consciousness encounters life, all is profoundly well. Maybe even fun. At the very least, peaceful.

Yes, even when life dishes up a big challenge. There is unending peace and well-being. Because there is no resisting, no mental processing.

It’s a stunner." (p. 12)


-- quote submitted by Mora F.

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