Discover the Inner Teacher

Jan 15, 2021

By Esther Veltheim

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth


None of us needs to be told that being human is challenging and unpredictable, and that for every up we experience, it can feel as if there are many, many more downs. Oddly, these self-evident facts about being human do not seem to deter us from aiming for perfection; the perfect feeling, the perfect relationship, the perfect look, the perfect life. With our aim constantly flying in the face of the laws of nature, is it any wonder we live at odds with ourselves, much of the time feeling like failures?

What on earth keeps us thinking that if we aim "out there" hard enough it will eventually transform what is going on "here"? It makes no logical sense, and yet, there is nothing like resignation to dull our intellect.

No circumstance traps us.
Not using our intellect to its full potential, that is a different matter.

To sharpen our intellect is not something many of us have been taught to do. Many educational institutions and religions and philosophies have even taught us the very opposite--practices and dogma designed specifically to dull our intellect, making us subservient to their indoctrinations, subduing the instinct to think for ourselves and to question.

The purpose of Satsang and the BreakThrough courses and events is quite different. They are not at all for the purpose of molding subservient followers or dispensing dogma. Satsang's purpose is to disrupt our familiar ways of thinking and to catalyze our curiosity. In this way only can we discover our inner teacher. The minute our intellect begins to be used in ways that serve us, rather than make us subservient to it, resignation is dispelled. In its place the realization comes that, "There is another way!"

As we shift from being slaves to our mental processes, the intellect serves us in remarkable ways. Our mind feels less contracted and increasingly expansive. And this expansiveness is reflected throughout our entire system
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