There is a requirement of a spiritual student that most are not willing to satisfy: it is called true sensitivity. And no one is truly sensitive who is identified with something. Human beings do not want true sensitivity, even though it might be said that people today are extremely "sensitive" in terms of being easily offended and touchy. The reason people are so wrongly sensitive is because o...
The present level of mind that we are experiencing on this planet today does not have command of its own attention. The world you see around you is being created by a level of desire that creates the conditions that it needs to flourish. It creates outwardly what it needs to sustain a consistent denial of the divine. The problem is that we think that somehow we were the ones who created this l...
Do you think for a moment that God is ever disappointed with the moment that He has made? Your personal unhappiness is because you are disappointed with yourself. In reality, who you really are is not apart -- not separate from -- the moment that God has made. The moment and you are the same thing. Whenever you can catch anything in you that feels disappointment or discouragement, drop it ins...
The only thing that we suffer from at any moment is what we have yet to understand about ourselves. We suffer the way we presently do because we live in a small world, and our actions and decisions are based solely on the context of the information available in that world. We think we are always right because we act according to the limited thoughts and feelings that are given to us in this sm...
In our daily lives--within our small worlds from which we look out presently--we seem to come into contact with people who either cause us to suffer, or who do not show us the proper amount of respect. To put it bluntly, living in that small world of ours is not fun. In fact, it can be downright painful! Fortunately there does exists a world that is not just my small world, in which there is n...
In case you did not hear the news, a young man was trampled to death on "black Friday" at a Wal-Mart in New York by more than two thousand people who broke down the doors at 5:00 AM in a mad rush to secure the best holiday deals for themselves. When we hear about events like this, a person can't help but wonder, "What in the world happened?" The official excuse for what caused the mob to rush...
Even though we do not know we are doing it, most of our time is spent in the futile activity of trying to free ourselves from pain. The pain can take many different forms--the cutting remark someone just said, a sudden memory of a time when you "failed", or the thought of what you have to do today. There seems to be a legion of pains, but the source of every pain is one thing. The pain is prod...
Change will never come through organizations nor through legislation. The more that people try to create peace, the less free they become. Peace existed before human beings unconsciously made it personal. The present nature that we currently live from takes everything personally. The "personal" world is the world of myself, my desires, my opinions, my preferences. The "impersonal" world is th...
You'll never climb out of the hole you find yourself in. Real Life has no holes to fall into. Every hole is a self-produced hole. Your mind actually builds the hole, then looks at it and says, "How did I get in here?" This means that if you find yourself in a hole and then struggle to climb out, the only thing you'll succeed at doing is digging the hole deeper. Thinking about the hole you'...
We live in a small world of thought. In our pain itself is something that can lead us to true change. We need to withdraw from this pain (sensation) of life.
End the Dark Cycle of Discontentment - Part I...
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We already have all the pain that we need to change, but none of it is conscious. Until it becomes conscious, it is impossible to change. We live in illusion, perpetuate the pain, and even add more to it whenever we avoid seeing our actual condition in the present moment.
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