Essence of Breema

We don’t yet understand that we cannot fight what is. That’s like kicking an apple tree to try to make it produce oranges! When you have acceptance, gratitude follows. You become grateful you could accept. 

Acceptance also helps us to lose our fear of others. What you see of yourself in...

Reality can’t be formulated in words. Still, words can inspire us, and we can receive direction from what we hear or read, provided we don’t take the words for reality itself. You can’t take the word “bread” to be bread, because no matter how many times you think it, your stomach remains empty. 

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Unity is the reality, and it is always so. Separation doesn’t exist. Every atom in every tree, in every rock, is in unity. Everything is in unity at all times. The Absolute is everywhere. And everywhere also means always. The truth is you exist in unity. But you have to tasteit—then you know it. You...

Before you agree to let someone live in your house, look at how carefully you consider, how you try to look at the situation from every angle to see if that’s right. But the things we put in our mind, we don’t investigate at all. We don’t even ask ourself, “Do I want to put that idea in my mind?”...

Let’s say you’ve lost your purse. You’ve also lost your peace and your presence of mind! All is lost in your worry about your keys, your license, and your credit cards. You’ve lost your purse, but on top of that, you’ve lost yourself. But when you’re connected to your real I, you can see that losing...

When you look at yourself, you need to have a correct picture of what it is you’re looking at. Or at least an approximately correct picture. What are you? Are you the body you see in the mirror? Are you the name people address you by? How do you look at yourself?  

You are two people, really. One...

It’s as though someone asks you who you are, and you say, “I went shopping and bought a white shirt, and it’s made of cotton.” These are all events of life that happen to you, and they’re exactly what you are not. They are the storyof your life—you were born in this country, you went to that college...

If you look in a mirror, you see the image of your body. You identify with that image, and you take yourself to be this physical body, which everyone refers to by your name. If you understand the relationship between you and the image of you that appears in the mirror, you’ve understood something...

Words are like cups. Their importance is in the meaning they contain. We have to learn to open words and get inside them, to extract their meaning. We relate to things literally. But the literal only conveys form and sequence, not understanding. Our problems come from not looking into things, not...