Seeking fulfillment it empties itself. Seeking importance it compromises itself. This is the self that opposes itself.
Cycling of vanity with life-in-vain goes on until you see the cost of a self-filling self. Then you commence on the good work of giving yourself up.
If... You serve only yourself, You serve nothing. If... You love only yourself, You love nothing. If... You cling only to yourself, You hold nothing. If... You wish to please only yourself, You please nothing. If... You have only things as pleasures, You have nothing. If... Your thoughts wrestle with tomorrow, You struggle with nothing. If... You strive to amass o...
Student Talks: 4/14/2023 - Key Lesson: We can keep running through our day -- rushing to get to where the next thought tells us we need to be -- or we can work to let these painful impulses pass into, and through us; there is no other choice: either we're awake, and aware of the presence of this "demanding self" -- watchful, and willing to die to its dark will -- or we're caught in its draft...
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Student Talks: 7/9/2021 - Key Lesson: Our greatest gift -- the heart and soul of our Divine possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but that we are able to discern -- consciously -- the difference between one order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something Greater than itself, and another kind of love... that lives only to give itself what it imagines makes it great.
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Student Talks: 6/26/2020 - Key Lesson: One sign of true spiritual success is when, at long last, we realize that there is no one else on this earth we would rather be!
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Student Talks: 8/16/2019 - Key Lesson: The faster, more excited, move one's thoughts, the more solid the illusion there is a "self" that sits at the center of them.
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Student Talks: 4/12/2019 - Key Lesson: The real reason why our heroes in life often turn out to be "zeros"... is because our "number" was up in the same moment that we went looking for strength anywhere outside of our True Self.
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Student Talks: 1/23/2019 - Key Lesson: The only reason we ever get “disturbed” over what others may or may not think about us...is because there is something in our present nature that wants to be.
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