One reason we don’t want to see this truth is that we often believe that if we choose to live in accordance with the truth of Essence, we will lose all the goodies of life that we’re attached to. We are so accustomed to looking at our lives from the perspective of getting things from the outside, we believe that if we cease to count on this pattern, we will lose them all. This is not so. In fact, if all your actions and desires, all the aspects of your life are subordinated to the truth of Essence, you can have what you want in your life. You can be famous, rich, sexy, have a family, a career, all these things. And you can enjoy them in the fullness of Essence, rather than always trying to get more and fearing the loss of what you have. There is no conflict between living the essential life and getting what you want in the world. In fact, when we are living according to our essence, it is possible finally to love our lives and the things in our lives. But if we value external things over our essence, then we shut off the part that can enjoy these things. The heart of joy, what we call the yellow heart or the bright sun, becomes sunny when it is turned toward Essence. When it is turned somewhere else, it is dark. It’s that simple. – Diamond Heart Book One: Elements of the Real in Man, ch. 5
To be even more efficient, both will and truth must be not only objective, but universal as well. “Universal” in this case means not only the truth about you, but the truth about the whole situation, about everything and everybody. Also the will is not only for you but for Essence as a whole. You will see that for you to really live the life of Essence, the life that will protect and nourish and nurture Essence, you have to take into consideration everything and everybody. It has to be universal. – A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book One: Elements of the Real in Man, Ch. 9