If we're fortunate, there comes a certain point when we just know that we can no longer afford to refuse what we know we see about ourselves.
The mind that is still mirrors whatever passes into it, finding itself unable to tell whether its nature is that which reflects the form, or whether it is the form being reflected. Love, and its companion, compassion, is the inability to distinguish between these opposites.
How can I strengthen my prayer for a new start with the resolve to actually accomplish it? Like so many others, every new year I begin with resolutions to make changes in my life, but by the end of the year (or much sooner) I find myself enmeshed in the same old patterns of habits and choices. How do I break the cycle of useless resolutions, and actually begin to learn something higher about m...
Having heard even a faint call to awaken, to realize the truth of God's Life, one should follow the guidance of his heart . . . all the while remaining as awake as possible to its quiet urge to either correct, redirect, or all together change the path upon which one walks.