User account menu Log in Search THE BREEMA CENTER Menu Breadcrumb Home About Breema Sign-up for Essence of Breema - inspirational excerpts from Breema Center books and classes Join one or more of our e-mail lists for announcements and inspiration! Subscribe Essence of Breema Search 30 November, 2021 If you examine all your fears, all the things you’re afraid of, you’ll see you are not afraid of something. You’re afraid of the thought of that thing. That’s how thoughts create fear. And fear is connected to the desire to not be afraid. Conflict between fear and desire creates suffering. We suffer... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 30 November, 2021 16 November, 2021 It doesn’t matter that you fall back into your thoughts a hundred times. The moment you see you were in thought, that’s a new opening, a new chance to come back to the taste of the present moment. You don’t have to go back to the past. You don’t need preconceived ideas or expectations, because they... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 16 November, 2021 16 November, 2021 It doesn’t matter that you fall back into your thoughts a hundred times. The moment you see you were in thought, that’s a new opening, a new chance to come back to the taste of the present moment. You don’t have to go back to the past. You don’t need preconceived ideas or expectations, because they... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 16 November, 2021 2 November, 2021 The way of the heart is also the way of connectedness, because the heart, by nature, brings everything into unity. Mind diversifies, heart unifies. Heart knows, mind tries to figure out. When we are truly in the heart, in the innermost of the intimate connection with our Source, our mind is a... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 2 November, 2021 19 October, 2021 Being-participation is not what it seems at first glance. It’s much deeper than that, because Being is always connected to Beingness, to unity. In unity, there is no fear. Fear comes from taking yourself separately. As soon as you are separate, you have to be afraid of me, and I have to be afraid of... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 19 October, 2021 5 October, 2021 Joy and sorrow are part of the process of Existence. Like the warp and weft of a carpet, they are woven into each other, and they each have a purpose to fulfill. The purpose of sorrow is to make us receptive to higher influences and to higher dimensions of ourselves. Joy is the expression in our... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 5 October, 2021 21 September, 2021 You cannot be that which dies. You can’t be something temporary, because your real nature is permanent, Timeless, immortal Existence. Identification with any part of the temporary aspect causes us suffering. If I believe I am “me,” I open the door to fear and suffering. Any label you attach to “I am... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 21 September, 2021 7 September, 2021 When you concentrate, that’s the time you don’t hear. Because real hearing takes place beyond your mind, beyond what you think you are. Allow yourself to be receptive. Then you hear. You can only hear from yourself. What you hear from “outside” has no value to you. But it could support you to become... From Freedom Comes From Understanding: Insights for Meaningful Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 7 September, 2021 24 August, 2021 The life force is like the sap that flows through all plants. Without it, they all die. For the sap to flow correctly, we have to be in touch with it—we have to experience it. We experience it through taste. Taste begins with body and mind working together in harmony. From First You Have to Be: The Nine Principles of Harmony in Breema and Life Resources Read more about Essence of Breema: 24 August, 2021 10 August, 2021 Just as we’ve misused the energy of the Earth, we misuse the energy of our own body. We need to find out how to turn, so we’re oriented in the right direction. The first step is to bring the mind, which has been fed rubbish for centuries and centuries, back in the direction of what is essential. And... 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