Scripture isn’t true because it has been written down. It isn’t true because someone at some point caught and registered and wrote down whatever was said, or gave their impressions of it later. What is true in scripture is what is true in you that can see the truth in that scripture...
If it is in our heart, at all... not just the wish to be free, but to no longer bring conflict or bitterness into the lives of those around us, then here is our great task...
If all of creation didn't share something in common, something invisible... yet in some ways more real than the objects that reveal and manifest that relationship... then how could the death of a tree bring life to the forest...
There are many things in life we don’t know until... One fateful day someone, or something, comes along and shows us the Truth of our matter. And then, in less than a heartbeat, impelled by some unimaginable movement of reality, it’s as though we’ve always known that Truth...
When we turn on a faucet connected to a hose with a small nozzle at its other end, we know from experience that we have to keep the hose in hand, otherwise we will likely get soaked chasing down the runaway end. What happens is that the water pressure, as it passes through the nozzle, transforms our ordinarily tame garden hose into the equivalent of a tethered rocket. With this picture in min...
Each of us has been given an immeasurable gift, a specific role to play in a celestial story so great, so vast it can hardly be seen. And further still, as our eyes open and we realize the truth of this invisible prize... not only do we reclaim our own grand possibilities, but we also help everyone else do the same!
Life is not "equal opportunity." It never has been, and never will be. That is the nature of this world, and resenting the reality of it does nothing but destroy those filled with such anger. However...
Why can’t we forgive people? Why do we remain chained to that pain? It’s because “I want to know why you did what you did,” and so I keep revisiting the offense in my mind...
Instead of being the passive instrument of a dark state, REMEMBER to be the active, impersonal observer of it... the sacrifice of our will and its familiar suffering so that we might embody a new Will that can’t act against itself...
All kingdoms, along with their creations -- from the starry universe, down to the smallest of all realms -- are connected. They are inseparable, just as is the ocean from its currents and the waves they create...
How many of us think that there is no individual action that we're ever going to take as a human being that's going to have global impact, even though all of us would like to be a leader or a hero? I want you to understand there is no such thing as an insignificant act on the part of a person who wants to wake up and be a different human being. Every last one of us is endowed..."
The greatest, most abundant resource on planet Earth is also its least understood and utilized. Its unlimited supply is found virtually everywhere, anytime, and under all circumstances, even though few recognize its real value. What is this most precious collective resource? It is our relationships. Consider these truths: It is within relationships that we grow as individuals in everything...