Here is a simple set of instructions for those who want their love to last: Don't try to please each other, for each of you has constantly changing pleasures. Instead, strive to please love... and in this you will please what is capable of being loved in one another. This understanding alone nourishes your love, and in turn love will...
Like a flower that emerges from rocky soil Only on a fully moonlit night, Truth appears And its fragrance enriches whoever waits near. Then suddenly, just as it appears On no appointed schedule, it disappears again... Only silence marks the empty spot from out of which it sprang. Some try to dig it out, but manage to extract only Bits and pieces of petals, stem, and occasional r...
It may not always seem so, but everyone wages The best battle possible at the time. When challenges come, we stand as upright as stature allows, And life delivers the inevitable blow that bends the will to break. Is that greatly religious, wise, or wealthy person lying there, Worn and torn on the ground, any less shattered Than the one who, despite all effort, loses the little so ha...
Sometimes the greatest truths are laid right before our eyes, in the simplest of things, and yet we just can't see them. Take for instance our own hands: what a miracle they are. If we consider for even a moment all they are capable of doing, it's evident that a great wisdom sits hidden behind their incomparable design. But, with this thought in mind, permit me to add one other to help us see...
We who aspire to a life of Truth . . . in order to unite ourselves within the guiding Light of its silent providence, and to secure the blessings of a freedom that only its presence can provide, hereby establish within and amongst ourselves, for all of posterity, these Articles of Higher Consciousness as set forth in this Bill of Lights. Article I You have the Light to detect, dismiss,...
Our task . . . Is to prepare a Vessel to be filled, And not . . . To fill an imagined vessel with what we dream it has been prepared for. The former begins by the light of inner work, fueled by an awakening faith. The latter has its beginning in the darkness of spiritual sleep; its inertia sustained by the machinations of self-centered considerations. The New Vessel is built to ho...
These five special insights present the case for -- as well as the cost of -- true Spiritual Independence. Welcome them into your mind and watch how their secret instructions lead you to the unconditional freedom that your heart longs for. To weigh the value of what this world can reward you with -- you need only to remove the scales from your eyes; for were you willing to measure how many t...
I do not have to be better than you have made me, For you have created me in your image And there is perfection in this promise. But I do have to bear what you would make of me, If I wish to know my maker. Perhaps the greatest, yet least understood spiritual secret in the World is that being what I am is what it takes to make me better; Because only within what I am Is what **...
Volunteer for deliberate spiritual growth by daring to venture into the unknown. It may surprise you to discover that the circumstances necessary just for you, and for your continuing inner development are much closer than you think! For instance, start with the following "10 Small Steps to Real Self-Knowledge." Agree to step into these unknown moments and then step back... And watch how new...
The answers to all of life's questions can be found WITHIN you. Three ways to start asking the right questions.
The 10 voluntary exercises below are for would-be Angels who want to develop their wings. Each is designed to help increase higher self-awareness.
The true spiritual path begins and ends with what you already are. Use these 10 insights to tell the world you've lost interest in being you.