You can be so entrenched in your patterns and habits, even in your ideas about who you are that you don’t let the fire of Consciousness burn away your limitations. Chanting helps with this. Vichara, our guided self-inquiry process, helps with this. Japa, mantra repetition, helps. And…
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Changing Your Past“
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The line that stands out for me from this discourse is “You can be so entrenched in your patterns and habits, even in your ideas about who you are that you don’t let the fire of Consciousness burn away your limitations“.
Thank you for this reminder! I needed it today
Freedom from your old patterns is so – freeing!