What we call "love for God" is often a form of emotional stimulation -- no matter how high the "high." Presence has a different flavor -- calm, equanimous. So is the high "love for God" a necessary prerequisite for presence?...
How can we begin the process of transcending our own limiting self-centered love to come into a fully conscious and impersonal one? One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path is that what we love does not love us. We are filled all the time with powerful feelings and emotions that seem to lift or otherwise provide purpose and self-worth. It is not too much to say th...
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Being renewed by Love -- and being willing to begin our life all over again -- are one and the same interior action. Learn what it means to do the latter and the freedom of the former will prove itself time and time again.
It isn't hard, at times, to love others for what they are. Such relationships are on easy terms, and we receive what we give in a fair measure. But to love another for what they may yet be -- to give them the patience and kindness that lets them flower -- this is a different task altogether. For to love a person for what he or she may be -- costs us; and to pay this coin we must, ourselves...
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Classroom Talk: 12/23/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 31, 2018. Part 1: There may come a time when it feels as though love has abandoned us... Or, that it is so far above us as to be out of reach; nevertheless, of this you may be assured: love is always with us; it never leaves us: it can't... Any more than a heartbeat can live apart from the heart that sounds it out...
Whenever we will do the best we can -- give the very most that we have to give -- even though our action may be very far from "perfect" -- nevertheless, that action is our part of entering into a celestial perfection to be realized in no other way. It is only by consciously enduring our own imperfections that we are given eyes to see that, all along, Love itself has been our guide and master.
Fall Out of Love With What's Lashing You...
When in a fight of any kind, over anything, we look over at the other person and "see" - almost magically - exactly what's wrong with him or her in that moment. So confident are we in our conclusion as to the nature of their problem - that the following has almost no chance to dawn on us: We can't see that person is looking at us in this exact same kind of "light"... that is not a light at all...
You Are What You Love (Blog)...
This is one of those beautiful talks that leaves you silent, mesmerized, and yet, overwhelmingly grateful. In fact, Guy Finley even said it himself: If you listen to this talk intently, it will have far-reaching implications in your life.
Guy Finley explains that if we wish to know God's life, then we must be willing to meet and walk into our limitations so that real faith can be born in us.