06.08.2007, 16:05
Habe dies heute morgen gefunden und dachte, das passt auch hierher. Vielleicht gibt es einen Übersetzungskünstler, der den Text für die nicht-englisch-lesenden Mitglieder lesbar machen könnte? Danke! 
Exposing the Happiness and Love Myth
An Interview with Authors Nouk Sanchez & Tomas Vieira, authors
of `Take Me to Truth, Undoing the Ego'.
Q.: "You are challenging our accepted beliefs on Happiness and
Love by saying that true happiness is really a demolition project…
what exactly do you mean by that?"
A.: It is impossible to achieve lasting happiness and love without
facing up to and undoing the one inhibitor of possible lasting joy.
The unrecognized problem that we all face is an identity from which
all desiring and manifesting arises. We're talking about the `me' we
think we are. This `me' is a mass of uninvestigated beliefs; it's a
mistaken identity and nothing even close to `Who' we really are.
This `me' is the ego and it's the unquestioned imposter who
unconsciously runs our lives. It's always seeking the next
happiness, approval or love "fix". And it has no idea what you truly
need.
The unquestioned ego is based on fear and separation. Sure, it says
it wants love, happiness and peace but it will never let you have
it. Why? Because it's hidden agenda is "Seek and never find!"
The ego is the false-self, a gigantic cover-up to disguise and
distract our attention from the one thing we all suffer from. Deep
down in all of us exists a seeming bottomless pit of "emptiness".
And it's this hidden emptiness that drives all our needs for love,
happiness, security, approval. There's only one block to lasting
love, peace and happiness and that's the uninvestigated ego and
without demolishing it, we can forget lasting love or happiness.
Q.: "If the ego has been running our lives, who are we and
what is it that we really want?"
A.: As the ego's belief system is undone, so are fear, conflict and
anxiety released. We begin to recognize and claim a quality that
most of us just never had, one that we spend our lives searching for
in all the wrong places. Its called peace; a deep sense of inner
security, one that can't be threatened by another person,
circumstance or anything outside us. There's a sense of divine
safety, it even goes beyond just a feeling; it's more like a knowing…
a state of awareness where you know that you're loved
unconditionally and that no matter what happens it's all in favor of
your own best interests. You have absolutely no doubt, therefore you
experience no suffering. And as the ego is released it's this
profound state of peace that we find ourselves to be.
Most of what we `think' we want such as a new relationship, a new
look, a great career, money, or fame are just cover-ups for our
deeper unconscious desire for this deep sense of inner security.
The human dilemma we all face is this endless cycle of seeking
pleasure while avoiding pain. We discover new ways to get a
happiness fix, ways to distract ourselves from having to face the
ego's fears. We don't realize that we're manifesting from the ego,
which is a mass of uninvestigated beliefs hiding well below our
conscious radar. Innocently we glance at our life and blame others,
the past, or circumstances for any adversity we experience.
According to `A Course in Miracles', we're not who we think we are.
And all suffering both personal and collective is born from
forgetting just who we are and the purpose we came to fulfill.
Exposing the Happiness and Love Myth
An Interview with Authors Nouk Sanchez & Tomas Vieira, authors
of `Take Me to Truth, Undoing the Ego'.
Q.: "You are challenging our accepted beliefs on Happiness and
Love by saying that true happiness is really a demolition project…
what exactly do you mean by that?"
A.: It is impossible to achieve lasting happiness and love without
facing up to and undoing the one inhibitor of possible lasting joy.
The unrecognized problem that we all face is an identity from which
all desiring and manifesting arises. We're talking about the `me' we
think we are. This `me' is a mass of uninvestigated beliefs; it's a
mistaken identity and nothing even close to `Who' we really are.
This `me' is the ego and it's the unquestioned imposter who
unconsciously runs our lives. It's always seeking the next
happiness, approval or love "fix". And it has no idea what you truly
need.
The unquestioned ego is based on fear and separation. Sure, it says
it wants love, happiness and peace but it will never let you have
it. Why? Because it's hidden agenda is "Seek and never find!"
The ego is the false-self, a gigantic cover-up to disguise and
distract our attention from the one thing we all suffer from. Deep
down in all of us exists a seeming bottomless pit of "emptiness".
And it's this hidden emptiness that drives all our needs for love,
happiness, security, approval. There's only one block to lasting
love, peace and happiness and that's the uninvestigated ego and
without demolishing it, we can forget lasting love or happiness.
Q.: "If the ego has been running our lives, who are we and
what is it that we really want?"
A.: As the ego's belief system is undone, so are fear, conflict and
anxiety released. We begin to recognize and claim a quality that
most of us just never had, one that we spend our lives searching for
in all the wrong places. Its called peace; a deep sense of inner
security, one that can't be threatened by another person,
circumstance or anything outside us. There's a sense of divine
safety, it even goes beyond just a feeling; it's more like a knowing…
a state of awareness where you know that you're loved
unconditionally and that no matter what happens it's all in favor of
your own best interests. You have absolutely no doubt, therefore you
experience no suffering. And as the ego is released it's this
profound state of peace that we find ourselves to be.
Most of what we `think' we want such as a new relationship, a new
look, a great career, money, or fame are just cover-ups for our
deeper unconscious desire for this deep sense of inner security.
The human dilemma we all face is this endless cycle of seeking
pleasure while avoiding pain. We discover new ways to get a
happiness fix, ways to distract ourselves from having to face the
ego's fears. We don't realize that we're manifesting from the ego,
which is a mass of uninvestigated beliefs hiding well below our
conscious radar. Innocently we glance at our life and blame others,
the past, or circumstances for any adversity we experience.
According to `A Course in Miracles', we're not who we think we are.
And all suffering both personal and collective is born from
forgetting just who we are and the purpose we came to fulfill.
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"Vergiss diese Welt, vergiss diesen Kurs, und komm mit völlig leeren Händen zu deinem Gott."
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