We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.
Roger HousdenThere is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.
Roger HousdenWe have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?
Roger HousdenWhen we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.
Roger HousdenThe ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.
Roger Housden