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Practice #1: Welcome Every Revelation

Key Lesson: The less afraid we become of seeing and realizing the depth and breadth of our human imperfections, the nearer we are to being spiritually, perfectly fearless.

Practice #2: Learn to Let Go and Welcome Every Life Lesson

Key Lesson: It is what we are willing to learn in the unfolding moment, and not what we think we already know, that awakens us, at last, to our highest spiritual possibilities. This is why the wise ones have always taught that knowledge is the seed of wisdom, but its flowering is in conscious action.

Practice #3: Step Down as Judge and Take the Witness Stand

Key Lesson: When it comes to dealing with others who have failed to meet our expectations, let us never forget the following: whatever their choices in the past that may have caused us pain, ought never blindly determine how we treat them in the present. After all, if the Divine decided to judge us "once and for all" - for even a small portion of our poorly made, self-centered decisions - surely It would have given up on us a long time ago.

Practice #4: Take the Step You're Sure You Can't

Key Lesson: There is no way to discover, let alone realize, the hidden depths of our still latent spiritual strength without a willingness to witness its corresponding weakness. This means that strength and weakness are NOT opposing forces, but complementary in nature. To see this truth is the same as ending our fear of feeling powerless in the face of any perceived limitation.

Practice #5: Remember: There's No Place Like Home!

Key Lesson - Part 1: The wish to know the truth of ourselves - to make the soul's journey back to its Celestial Home - originates from within a part of us that is already there... as it is impossible to long to return to some place where we haven't already been.
Part 2: Each moment we will dare return into the quiet awareness of ourselves - remaining there long enough to see, and sense, the whole of ourselves - is the same as the dawn of an altogether new and higher understanding whose Light first reveals the way back Home... and then guides us, safely, back to it.

Practice #6: Take Time to Nourish Your True Self

Key Lesson: When it comes to a choice in meals, deals, even making plans, one can afford to make certain mistakes; these decisions, including their delay are generally not irreparable. But this isn't so when it comes to the interior work required to develop the nascent soul. The choice and eventual cost of delaying, or otherwise ignoring its needs, is to lose a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to realize your highest possibilities.

Practice #7: Invite the Light of Love to Lead You to Spiritual Freedom

Key Lesson: For all who are willing to consciously persist - who will walk up to, and go through whatever challenge or limitation they encounter along the Way - they are guaranteed to realize the following truth... that helps set them free: hidden in the seed of any limitation awaits the flower of some new and higher possibility beyond anything that can be imagined.

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Talk Takeaways

Thought cannot touch what is spiritual. We are meant to be connected to a much broader and more profound world. All true teachings exist for the purpose of awakening and developing the part of us that can participate in this broader world.

Without knowing it we look for our possibilities in the past. What the personality wants and pursues does not serve the soul.

The physical body cannot transcend the set of possibilities that it was given, but within us is a celestial seed whose possibilities are not limited. This celestial seed requires the light of another order of awareness, another kind of energy, in order to develop.

Every thought that we entertain -- that we give our attention to -- is the same as a prayer, a request, a practice.

Spiritual exercises are not intended to make us feel good or to confirm ourselves as a certain kind of person according to an image. They are intended to bring us into a relationship with an intelligence that reveals ourselves as we are.

The development of the soul comes at the cost of the personality.

There is no such thing as a bad fact about yourself, which means that anything that rejects a revelation is not part of who you really are.

Who you really are is never the same.

Everyone wants to grow, but nobody wants to be wrong.

Take the step you are sure you can't. For instance, stop consoling yourself. Food is consolation. Gossip is consolation. Complaining is consolation. Having an enemy is consolation.

Something in us would rather think about a problem than see it.

Learn to ask for and see the wisdom in correction, which includes seeing the lower part of us that rejects correction and revelation.

Having an image is also an expectation. Expectation involves comparison. And comparison is conflict.

Any image that we have of a future that is full of promise is our prison.

Do the work and understanding will come to you. You must do the work, and THEN you will hear.

The only thing that labeling ourselves does is to give us something to be against.

Always seeking to be comfortable is the avoidance of discomfort, which is the same as the avoidance of revelation.

We don't know what else to do with pain but to think about it, analyze it, try to resolve it so that we never have to go through pain again. The pain won't go away because we resist seeing that it was never our pain to begin with.

We change ourselves by seeing ourselves as we are. How much can we take of seeing ourselves before thought steps in?

The awareness of the conflicted level of consciousness is its redemption.

The condition that you want to avoid does not exist outside of the consciousness that creates the condition.

Do not seek anything other than greater clarity.