I was surprised to see that your newest book includes an Islamic crescent on the front cover. I have studied Islam and find that it encourages "jihad" against the unbeliever, subjugation and violence towards women, etc. I am hesitant to purchase your book if you are going to cherry-pick inspired kernels of wisdom from inhumane ideology.
Part 1 From inner lies arise all forms of outer lying; to realize this truth is the beginning of the end of all self-created fears. Part 2 Each lie that we tell ourselves -- or that we "share" with others -- is both the seed and the bitter fruit of a fear to come... until the truth be told.
Topics Covered: We are presently cut off from the larger world that we're meant to be a part of; Whenever we think of what a larger world may be, we are only in the world of thought without knowing it. Our mind only knows how to imagine a larger world; The larger world is above us, beneath us, and awareness of above and below at the same time; Complaining about life is not the...
Student Talks: 11/18/2022 - Key Lesson: The past does not give birth to the future, any more than we might think to look for the living in a graveyard.
I wake up every morning and this terror comes over me to the point of producing many physical symptoms. I want God's life with all my being, but I feel like I am standing on a bridge staring down into the abyss and cannot move through this. Please help. What other way is there of dealing with panic attacks if all forms of resistance are futile? Why is it that when I hear some bad news, it auto...
Part 1 Forever discontent, forsaken, and forlorn is the branch that seeks to grow its own fruit, and to glorify itself therein. Part 2 Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: higher self-knowledge. This level of self-knowledge serves one purpose: awakening to the truth of one's self. Awakening to the truth of oneself serves one purpose: dying to oneself. Dying t...
Topics Covered: Our life is intended to be an infinite series of revelations of higher levels of ourselves; Within us lives not only what is high and light, but what is also low and dark, waiting to be revealed so that it can be healed; As goes my attention, so comes my experience. Attention is connection; To connect with something is to agree, whether conscious or not, to exchange energies with that thing.
Part 1 The illusion of Time is that it's a progression, but it is not; (it is) a stage, a higher dimension upon and through which the book of creation continues to be revealed. Part 2 The true spiritual journey commences with awakening to the timeless depth and breadth of (our) consciousness. All that we are, and hope to be already resides therein... waiting to reveal its Light to w...
Part 1 Between a reaction and our response (to it), we must find the will to repose. Without being able to enter into the timeless space between what stirs us, and what it reveals within us, it's likely that what we see as a wise choice (in that moment) will prove itself an action born of some ignorance yet to be realized. Part 2 Knowledge doesn't exist without the past, while Wisdo...
Classroom Talk: 1/12/2003 - The mastery of anything, including ourselves, begins with the faith that we are not here on earth to be perfected according to an image we hold of ourselves, but rather to allow Perfection to work its way upon us...So that only the awareness of something Greater than ourselves can draw us into a Greatness beyond ourselves, if we will it so.
Question: What if a co-worker is a constant relentlessly negative person that looks to fault you (and most others) every single minute he can? He never shows signs of slowing down -- no matter what I have tried already.