Watch a cat. It sits silent, unmoving, until something catches its eye: a movement in the grass, a flutter in a bush... and the cat comes to life. Its predator instinct is awakened and -- by an act of nature that moves through every fiber of its feline being -- it leaps into the continuing circle of life... and death. All movements, by their very nature, share three characteristics or qualiti...
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It seems natural to fear moments we don't want, to avoid any knock at the door of some untimely event. But it's not these moments themselves that we are afraid of: what we fear is our reaction to them, so that we can't see that this experience we don't want... is actually the pain of a negative reaction as it unfolds within us.
Fear's power over us is nothing more than the way it causes us to forget the truth of ourselves, which is this: we are created to eternally transcend the limits of our present nature, to transform who and what we have been in the very moment it ceases to serve the good of us. But, because we have forgotten this or -- more accurately speaking -- because we are asleep to its power in us, we ar...
How can I stop judging others? Is it possible to pass judgment on someone and still be an "aware" person? It seems like a pretty thin line between judgment and discernment!...
Question from a student: What is a good approach with a supervisor who clocks one's production and applies other pressures? Do what is in your power to do, and refuse to do what is not. Neither ticking clock, nor dominating supervisor is in your power to change; they are what they are...(but not what you think). On the other hand, what is in your power is to KNOW the truth of the first statem...
HERE IS A SECRET... So deep... So mysterious... So untold... Not even the world wherein it was first conceived knows of its cloaked existence. Nothing you can buy or sell, be sold or be told, no one and no place in this world, has the power to bring you the abiding contentment your heart now seeks. And further... No religious or political leaders... Neither civic servants nor social activist...
I've noticed that the more I hear people complain about their unwanted circumstances in life, the less likely they are to do anything to change them. It makes me wonder if I'm just as ungrateful and unwilling! Many religious and spiritual teachers talk about "tithing" or giving away 10% of your income. Is this something we should all do? What is the reason for doing it? I feel grateful for the...
No one succeeds in life who lives in fear. Fearlessness is first the will to proceed in spite of conditions, and then it becomes a consciousness fixed in us that is beyond conditions. Real success is a fearless state of being in a conscious relationship with an Intelligence that always achieves its ends in spite of changing conditions. The success that our present nature looks for is to try...
Surely we've known certain "perfect" moments in our lives. But who hasn't been in the middle of a dream vacation, without a care in the world, when--kaboom! In spite of the abundance around us, we're suddenly negative, deeply distressed simply because something or someone fails to please us according to our expectations! Or how about those moments when--regardless of how many of our friends...
Real spiritual strength is realized, slowly, by daring to detect and drop the blind negative states that we've been allowing to define us.
Learn to detect negative feelings that imply there's nothing that can be done about the way you feel at the moment.