Topics covered: Our present level of consciousness believes it is natural and wise to not-want what we are experiencing; The sensation of life is not life. Believing that sensation is life is a trap perpetuated by a level of consciousness that pursues sensations that it is already familiar with because it produces a familiar sense of self; You don't need to imagine what it is like to be spiritual, because -- when you remember...
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Topics covered: The last thing we want is to be in the lowest place, even though every true teaching talks about one's salvation being found not in pride nor in any of the possessions we have acquired; Your life has its own teachings. You alone can receive what you have been given to receive. Life is not a race to win, but a school for your higher education; Arrogance is the act of pushing everything away that does not correspond with the image we...
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Topics covered: Reality, inner and outer, is a lot bigger than our thoughts about it; We have an innate longing to belong to something greater than ourselves; Thought is the limitation, not the way to transcend limitation. Identification with thought stops exploration and discovery; The greater our resistance to any unwanted moment, the bigger that moment seems...
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Topics Covered: The consciousness that creates separation cannot know immortality; "It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions." -- Vernon Howard; Living from a part of yourself that passes itself off as the whole is the same as living in time; Thought creates the illusion of time along with the self that seeks for completion through possessions found in time...
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Topics Covered: "What is important is to find out if you're one of those within whom love wishes to dwell." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti; Do what is needed to do so that you can be a place within which love wishes to dwell; Everything that we think is so critical to attend to eventually becomes a source of discontent; You have something in you that is in need of nourishment, which means that the first...
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Topics Covered: Sanity is a state of mind and of being that is at peace; The great task for all spiritual aspirants is to be completely what you are as you are being completed; The whole of life cannot be separated from that which is giving life; The orignal meaning of the idea of "sin" was connected to "missing the mark"; Thinking about tomorrow's plans to find peace and fulfillment is...
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Topics Covered: There is no real authority outside of your relationship with the Divine; A longing for the Divine is the need to close the distance between yourself and the Divine; It is impossible to complete ourselves as we imagine in the world of passing time; Time turns worldly ambitions into pain. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you...
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Topics Covered: When you find yourself surrounded by raging thoughts and feelings that are closing in on you, remember yourself with the understanding of "You go on without me," and watch those thoughts and feelings flow down the river; Our present level of consciousness is really just one level of being, one mansion in the great kingdom of existence...
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Topics Covered: We live from a book of recurring reactions, which is not the book of life, but the book of this earth; We live in a world the size of our remembering; Let the dead bury the dead; We cannot serve two masters; We cannot complete ourselves through something outside of ourselves; The memory of our true nature includes the awareness of the consciousness...
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