Talk Takeaways

Love does not appear in a time to come after you get what you want. The Love that we cannot give ourselves is always acting on all of creation.

We long to give ourselves to something greater than ourselves, and the longing is placed there within us by what is greater.

People are afraid to walk away from things that they think they need to produce for themselves, even though attachment to those very things is the cause of discontentment and desperation.

The original meaning of the word "religion" was closely related to the idea of "reconnecting."

"I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there." -- Gospel of Thomas, New Testament

Thought and knowledge are intermediaries, and they immediately get in the way of the living principles they are pointing to.

What we run after cannot quench our thirst. Whereas, everything real that is being given to quench our thirst is freely available when we are able to stay present where we are.

We squander the energy we are given, instead of using that energy properly to reconnect to the Giver.

Everyone and everything in life that does not give us what we want is perceived as an enemy.

Exercise: When you feel the push of "gotta do, gotta go," remember that you will never satisfy that consciousness. Be present to it, so that you are in the presence of what has triggered that unconscious self while being present to what has revealed it to you. That's where Heaven and Earth meet. Until we are able to remember ourselves and bear the realization that "I Am" must come before "I want," then old fears and tears will take precedence over awareness. You must bear embodying that realization.

The Will of Heaven is in fact done on the earth whenever a human being remembers him or herself, which includes awareness of what is in the way of that connection.

The psychological pain in any moment is not caused by the moment itself, but is due instead to the judgment and resistance to the moment, in not understanding our role to remember ourselves in those moments.

When we act from resistance, there is a choice that is being made for us. There is no conscious person there who would deliberately choose to hurt him or herself.

Resisting an unwanted moment, and the creation of an unconscious identity happen at the same time, which essentially cuts us off from life-giving revelation.