A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Id
Idealization
Idealizing Transference
Ideals
Identification
Identity

Identity Attachment
Image
Impeccability
Impersonal Witness
Impressionability
Individual
Individuality
Individuation Narcissism
Inertia
Infant Soul
Inner development
Inner Journey
Inner Mother
Inner Realization
Inner Space
Innocence
Inquiry
Insecurity
Insight
Instinct
Instinctual Drives
Integration
Intelligence
Interference
Introjection
Intuition
Ipseity
Issues

Insight

Now let’s try to identify what that thing is, if there is something there at those times of insight that gives you that conviction, that certainty; something that makes an insight have more truth than just an ordinary perception of your state. In the experience of insight, isn’t there more of a sense of freedom than in ordinary perception? Don’t you feel a sense of expansion, a lifting, a sense of satisfaction? And insight generally has two things, the content of the insight and something else – the energy present in the insight that gives you the sense of certainty and expansion. (Diamond Heart Book 1, pg 152)

 

 

With an insight, there is an energetic sense in your mind and body that indicates more certainty and gives you a sense of freedom that is more satisfactory. It’s a much more palpable, believed sense of freedom. As further insights occur, they will go deeper, and the certainty also gets deeper. When this process continues for some time, you might feel there is something there in the air somehow, almost like a taste, a fragrance; you taste, sense, smell, feel it – something almost sweet, satisfying. There is a sense of an intimate kind of closeness to yourself, along with a freedom of expansion. There is an experience of satisfaction. (Diamond Heart Book 1, pg 153)

 

 

Insight and concepts

Insight requires concepts. So in some sense, it is not one-hundred-percent fresh. But it is closer, fresher. It’s seeing something about reality that is closer to the immediate experience. If you get completely close to the immediate experience, of course, there will be no form then. The form disappears little by a little. (Diamond Heart Book 4, pg 293)