When suddenly -- through a sense of similarity -- I'm made present to some positive, uplifting quality outside and within myself, I am happy. I lend myself to it without doubt. But in moments I am introduced to something negative inside myself by an event that I don't want, I have to find a reason for it being there.
We have lost the relationship between what we see with our eyes and the registration of it as an aspect of our own True Nature because we don't see what we see; instead we think about what we see. And when we think about what we see, what we receive is the content of thought that has stored that experience. We don't receive what is real, alive, changing, creative, and forceful.
It isn't this world that threatens or disturbs us. We are dominated by our own thoughts and feelings. We are taken over by our own reactions. This is painful for us because our original nature, our True Self, longs to be free and unencumbered by self-limiting, self-defeating, compulsive thoughts and feelings. The problem is, at our present undeveloped level, we believe that another person...
Topics covered: What good is it to live in a world where the idea of "God" is merely a convenience that suits people only when they need the idea for some kind of self gain?; An unconscious interior dialog includes being told the reason why we are in conflict, along with the things we should do to end the conflict; Identification with a reaction is the same as passively consenting to the consciousness that...
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Topics covered: Every creature in creation has a relationship with what is directly below it and what is directly above it; Every creature at its center is brought into creation with an innate desire to seek out the initial cause of that desire; "The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin." -- Walt Whitman; There is no such thing as static spirituality...
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Topics Covered: Stillness, peace and genuine security cannot be created by the mind. The peace that passes all understanding dwells in another order of our being that is beyond the intellect; The return journey to our spiritual home cannot be separated from the realization that you cannot fill yourself. Nothing that you fill yourself with will free you; The condition that is blamed for the way...
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Topics Covered: Resistance is bondage. "Not wanting" is a form of bondage that can't be separated from its opposite of "wanting"; Within every imagined want is contained the fear that what we want will not come; There is another order of our own being that cannot be made less than it already is; Silence is not just the lack of sound, but it is backdrop and foundation that allows...
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Topics Covered: We are meant to use everything that happens to us to deepen our relationship with peace; I get disturbed whenever what 'I' know is not confirmed by the prevailing condition; Anxiety is a state that tries to find rest by racing through all of the possible paths to take in order to get through the moment; As above, so below. As within, so without; Our experience of any...
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