It always amazes me on sun-bright mornings such as this one how I could have ever forgotten just how much beauty hides in a winter day. The ground is covered in rich brown tones borrowed from curling leaves. Here and there pop up patches of fall-parched grasses just greening, reborn from early rains. And, more than anything else, the stark trees of winter stand like nature's exclamation points...
Whenever you come to me I have no questions for you, only openness. Nothing needs be spoken. Everything is in its place; all is accounted for. But when you leave... I am like a harbor without a boat; a nest without a bird; a cup that somehow knows what it means to have capacity, yet that sits without any means to fill itself except for this flood of questions rushing to pour themselves into w...
In all the worlds above and below there is but One Balance. This perfect equipoise is not God Himself, but the expression of His Life in the uncreated form of three forces unified. Balance is that indefinable third force where what pushes and what pulls are neither one nor the other, but a force transformed into a wholly new potential. This fully alive, ever active Supreme Stasis is the hidd...
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Topics covered: The moment that you start thinking about being in the flow, you are cast out of the flow; Resistance to the disturbance seems to prove that we would be content if it were not for the disturbance; When a dream is interrupted, the dreamer comes up with a plan to get rid of whatever is obstructing the dream; Identification with anything always places a person outside of where the real flow exists.
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Topics covered: The central longing of human beings is to reconnect with the Divine. We are disconnected from that longing when we are thinking about what we want; "The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin." -- Walt Whitman; We want to be connected to something greater than ourselves; We look in the mirror of becoming to tell us who and what to be...
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Topics Covered: The inner work we must do is simple, but simple does not mean easy; The world is populated with people who measure their value, and the value of others, through their possessions. People believe that they will not have a life without what they want or don't want; All psychological fear is connected to an identity crisis. One of the root fears is that we will cease to exist...
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Topics Covered:The "self" that sets out on the journey to reconnect with the Divine will not be the same self that finally arrives; The very act of attempting to escape from unwanted moments is the creation of a painful circle of self that attempts to, but cannot escape itself; The "consciousness of otherness" that was referred to in the talk is the divided level of mind that believes...
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