Most of us carry, buried in the depths of ourselves, untold amounts of unconscious woe. Regardless of our religion, skin color, social position, or cultural conditioning, psychological pain plays no favorites... and we all pay the price of the ensuing blame game.
Have you noticed yet that wherever you go, the thing that you don't want the most seems to know where you are? Seriously. It doesn't just know where you are. The Divine has created the conditions under which a reaction will be stirred and brought into your consciousness so that you can finally realize that running from it doesn't change the reality of it. Only bringing it into the light...
We must learn what it means to become unfixed from negative states, and we will when we realize that the sense of self we derive from them is worthless. It's not based on anything real, and it has no permanence because with time all states pass. We value negative states because of the strong sense of self we get from them. This may be very difficult for us to see, but a strong light...
There is a nature inside of us -- a product of this world physically and psychologically -- that does not want to change. In fact, it is hell-bent on having everything remain the same so that it can complain about the same things again and again. This unconscious nature is a product of our world physically and psychologically. It's almost like a wrapping -- much like a seed is encased...
When an unwanted moment comes along - there's a stress, a strain, somebody's definitely being negative -- aren't you positive that the reason you're in pain and resisting the condition is because of "what they are"? I'm telling you, that's not the case. They are revealing to you something in your consciousness that you don't know is there! And the only way it stays there, and hidden from you...
The next time that life comes knocking with what you "don't want," instead of allowing yourself to be dragged through the old round-around, make these three new choices, and watch how they dismiss the darkness knocking at your door: Your first choice (always!) is to come wide-awake to yourself. Remember: Your new aim is to not allow old, mechanical reactions..."
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Question: How do you integrate and apply the principle that "I am bigger than this moment" when your mind is programmed otherwise? How do you practice stopping reacting? Answer: You don't practice stopping reacting, you see that you can't stop reacting.
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Topics covered: Anxious thoughts about what to do in an unwanted moment IS the unwanted "moment" that you are struggling with; To know better than to not-want what you are experiencing is to see that all of the actions involved in not-wanting are futile. To know better is to recognize that you have been there in that same place, not-wanting your experience, a million times before...
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Topics covered: The word "evil" in the old language was not a moral judgment but instead had to do with anything that kept a human being from doing what was divine in nature. Unconsciousness is the source of all evil; The acronym UIWER stands for "Unconsciously Identified With Every Reaction"; Our reactions are the way we see and experience our life; Seeing that you have been...
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Topics covered: We live within a timeless intelligence that waits for us to grow into it. All truths that we will ever discover already exist, waiting to be discovered; You cannot grow into something without growing out of something else; What you are waiting for is already waiting for you before you even thought to wait for it; Unchecked negative reactions spoil all relationships into which they appear...
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Topics covered: Everything that we see is through its reflection in our consciousness, including physical objects; Beauty is in our consciousness, not just in the outside condition that it sees, but it needs the condition to reveal that the observer is the observed; If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is fear, doubt and anxiety; Our present consciousness is mirrored in the...
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