Of what use is our endless struggle to adapt and even achieve some of the more common culturally-valued prizes, knowing (as all of us do) that nothing we can ever possess has the power to stave off our own inevitable passing? The following quotation that I just love is from Vernon Howard, a great twentieth century mystic, that really not only helps to put this idea that we're...
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!
We all want the comfort of knowing that there are things we can count on, that there is something in this life permanent. Yet, everything seems to slip away from us; people, places, and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving us once again seeking something to give us a permanent sense of well-being. There is a cure for this seemingly endless longing...
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Classroom Talk: 2/11/2024 - Life is change; it is creation revealing itself. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or we can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that the pain of our resistance (to them) proves we know how life is supposed to unfold.
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Classroom Talk: 6/26/2022 - 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 the seed of our own suffering into the same.
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Classroom Talk: 12/11/2021 - Knocking on the Door of Time: Today I spent an hour knocking on the door of Time. No one answered. All that greeted me was silence. But, I'm pretty sure as I was standing there, waiting... That I saw a light come on inside. So I asked, "Is anyone there who might let me in?" Then it seemed came a voice, from where I cannot say...
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Classroom Talk: 11/1/2020 - Here's exactly why we need a moment-to-moment awareness of our (own) thoughts and feelings, let alone what they may be telling us is true about ourselves, and our relationships in life: nothing comes "tomorrow" that isn't born in the Here and Now...
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Classroom Talk: 4/8/2020 - In the relentless passage of time whatever has been created -- a pungent spice, the prize-winning rose, even one’s greatest accomplishment -- all lose their fragrance, as must all things in time. Only Love -- its Living Light -- remains undiminished; the scent of Heaven is... Eternal.
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