It is no stretch of the imagination to say that many days most of us wrestle with some form of discontentment in life. Add to this disgruntled condition an equal amount of time spent searching for solutions to "cure" this confliction, and we come to realize a great deal of our time on earth is spent trying to dodge feelings of being discontented!
Have you ever wondered why our best intentions and the ability to accomplish them seem to live in two different universes? We intend not to do something mean-spirited or otherwise self-defeating. Yet that is often just what we do. Then we ask, "What happened... how could we?" Yet, for all of our questioning, this mystery remains unsolved. See if the following insight doesn't shed much-needed...
Day in and day out, our minds are literally swamped -- socially, culturally, economically -- with new ideas, fail-proof programs, promises of special places... things that, if we could only acquire them, would quiet our restless minds and hearts. So it goes that most of us are always running after something to quiet that nagging sense of feeling as though we're incomplete. But repeated experie...
Have you ever thrown your hands in the air and asked yourself "What in the world is going on with me? How come my best intentions and the ability to accomplish them seem to live in two different universes?" We intend not to run off like a mad human being, spending money ill-afforded. We intend not to do something mean-spirited or otherwise self-defeating. Yet that is often just what we do...
Imagine a man lost in a series of deep and dark caverns. He anxiously shouts out "Hello!" and then strains to listen for a response. A heartbeat passes and in the distance he hears "Hello, hello." His spirits surge and off he races in the direction of the caller. He doesn't understand it is only an echo. He doesn't know he is following the sound of his own voice -- a voice that is taking him d...
Have you ever thrown your hands in the air and asked yourself "What in the world is going on with me? How come my best intentions and the ability to accomplish them seem to live in two different universes?" We intend not to run off like a mad human being, spending money ill-afforded. We intend not to do something mean-spirited or otherwise self-defeating. Yet that is often just what we do...
Topics covered: In any moment that you see beauty, you are not searching for anything to complete yourself; The world tells us that the way to complete ourselves is through acquisition, achievement and approval; We spend almost our entire lives trying to find the "partner of the moment" to complete us. Every partner we imagine has to be re-imagined when it doesn't live up to what we thought it would be...
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Topics covered: Useless struggle is the effort to maintain the self that believes outside conditions to be the cause of its experience; The mind that cannot see itself is forever set against itself; The sole/soul purpose of all true teachings is to get an individual to see that nothing is missing; Our present level of consciousness sees transformation as a process of becoming, through the acquisition -- in a time to come -- of something that is missing...
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Topics covered: A true spiritual school is a place intended to open up questions that have been dormant in you, and then help you remember to find answers within your own life experience; The symbol of the snake eating its own tail connotes that there is no beginning and there is no end; There is no such thing as a painful real question. Rather, there is a consciousness that asks questions whenever there is a disturbance...
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Topics covered: Not one thought you have ever had has brought an end to the compulsion to keep thinking; In the unconditional acceptance of the experience of yourself is everything you need; The mind comes into each moment with a predetermined set of demands, comparing the present moment to what it imagines life should be. The mind does that because it feels incomplete...
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Topics covered:A true teaching shows an individual where he or she is complicit in their own unnecessary suffering; A new "body" is necessary in order to move from a lower, limited world into higher, more inclusive world; The acronym "SBARAAHP" in the doctor story stands for "Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place"; If you feel like you are stuck between a rock and a hard place...
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Topics covered: Every condition that you see outside of yourself is a reflection of something that is already in your consciousness; Life is ceaselessly being renewed, always giving birth to a new form; The level of consciousness that we presently live from is a psychological hoarder, not able to let go of and creating a storehouse the images that provide a strong sense of self.
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