We are always trying to build a self that won't disappear out of the things that are coming in the stream of time, never understanding that nothing we find floating upon this temporal stream can ever be timeless. And if this is true about the nature of the world's ever-becoming events, how much more impermanent is our sense of identity derived from them? But we're slow to learn!
Can we see how, in one form or another, everything in creation longs to touch and to be touched? Flowers and trees stretch their leaves and limbs up to the sun, just as it reaches down to touch them. After all, to what end the timeless nature of such radiance, if not to grant life to whatever forms it temporarily animates?
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Classroom Talk: 12/13/2024 - Everything is singing; all things created, even those that seem to make no sound are, nevertheless, instruments of a silence that never stops ringing out; each tells a story unique not only to itself, but for the sake of all those who wish to hear the One Voice that speaks for all.
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Student Talks: 9/13/2024 - Key Lesson: Words are rocks in the stream of consciousness; no name is the experience it seems to define. Experience -- like the flow of a river -- is a silent, wordless movement. We can either live in, and from the conditioned experience of a word, or in the timeless awareness of experience itself.
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Classroom Talk: 7/31/2024 - The grace of God is immeasurable; it is we who measure all we are given to see - and to be, accordingly; and where, with each conclusion as to the worth of what we're given to see, we steal from ourselves the immeasurable wealth of our own highest possibilities.
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Student Talks: 7/1/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The secret entrance into the unknowable Divine can never be found in this or that thought, but only within a faith-based action that must be trial-tested before it can be counted on as unquestionably True. Part 2: The instant that we stir any element of time -- of thought -- into our experience of the present moment we have sown...
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Topics covered: To know myself requires being myself, and in the end, that is the whole journey. The end of the journey is knowing myself and the truth of myself in any given moment; You almost always forget the most important thing in any moment, which is to know that you exist; Your experience of any given moment is a result of what you serve. You receive what you serve, no exceptions...
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 29, 2018. No one finds the Kingdom of Heaven, awakens to realize one's true Self -- by whatever name one may give to this celestial level of Being -- who fears to seek, to see, and to fully realize... the truth of his or her present level of self.
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