Exchange

Once something has outlived its usefulness, its purpose for being in existence is no longer needed. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight and then transfers its energy to the tree serves one purpose in the spring and summer and another completely different purpose through the fall and winter. Its form first appears as an agent to help feed the tree and then, as it dies and falls to the earth, the same leaf becomes food for the tree.

We are born into a universe of exchange, always bathing in a host of light, vibration, and sound, produced by an exchange of infinite bodies that are a part of our reality, both visible and invisible. But how aware am I -- in my body, in my life -- that everything exists as it does for me, even my very breath, because there's an exchange taking place?

Letting go and spiritual growth are as rain is to a field of wildflowers: we blossom as beings only as we release ourselves from what is self-limiting. But why do this kind of work within ourselves? Even though it's obvious, it needs to be stated: we struggle with whatever we do -- with whatever personally compromises us or our contentment in life -- so that we might realize a greater...

There are these moments where a person is introduced to a great clarity that the world they have been looking in, in order to find themselves through, is incapable of revealing the worth they are looking for. This first shock (have you had it, by-the-way?) is when a person realizes, "Uh oh. This is a dead-end. Oh no." And when a person has enough of these moments..."

The winter solstice represents the time of the year that the light comes into the darkness. It is an outer representation of an inner exchange that is always taking place within us, so that we can be brought into a greater life and fulfill the promise we all have to be a better human being. It is only as we are delivered into this other order of light and understanding that we...

Most of us "give" back to life -- to others -- what little we do only to ensure we continue to get whatever we feel is fair in trade for that exchange. It's a good thing that the Divine doesn't adhere to our notion of a fair program of exchange.

Topics Covered: Freedom is in seeing the nature of what imprisons us, which can be done any time and place; The whole idea of escaping from yourself or from the world is a waste of time and energy; When you are reminded of something, you are being reintroduced to something that has always existed in your consciousness; Our consciousness doesn't just reflect the world around...

Classroom Talk: 3/30/2005 - If you stop trying to pull things into your life, Or struggling to push them out, You gladly discover you're are neither a teapot, Nor what pours out from its spout!

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2005 - Here is an inescapable spiritual law: until everyone you meet is able to teach you the truth of yourself, no one else can; so to consider yourself wiser than others -- or unable to learn from them -- proves that your imagined superiority is really just a form of stupidity hidden from view by the long shadow of pride!