The alchemy of love

When two entities connect with each other and both are changed by the encounter, a third force is created. Sometimes this is called alchemy, other times love.

The end of anger

The only way to defeat anger is by surrendering to it. Anger resisted is anger invigorated and prolonged. We resist anger when we rationalize it or apportion blame. This empowers anger, turning it into a marauding perma-guest, an entirely negative entity whose sole aim is the complete destruction of our inner peace. Surrender is accomplished by accepting how awful anger feels and then by consciously sinking straight into it, breathing right into its roiling, viral center, doing that for as long as it takes. There’s an alchemical gift at the end of this. The gift isn’t received. It’s revealed.

Freedom from anger

Mike Fisher writes, “If I had to give away one fundamental learning that shifts situations, it would be: ‘Sit in the discomfort of your feelings and delay gratification’.” Have we got that? Feel everything. Don’t do anything.

Alchemy (2)

Ego dies when we accept the unacceptable, and when we do it now. Ego cannot die in the future.

Alchemy

Nothing changes until acceptance enters the picture.