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Real faith and true freedom go hand-in-hand, because no one is free who lives in fear, and fear cannot live in the one who has faith.
I would like to be able to sustain a loving and harmonious relationship, but I always seem to end up being critical or dissatisfied with the other person. How can I learn to avoid these dead-end relationships and find true love and compassion for someone else?...
Classroom Talk: 12/29/2002 - One cannot have a true wish for the love of God without it being God's Love making that wish (within him), any more than one could wait in hopeful anticipation of a sunrise who had never before stood in the warming rays of dawn's early light.
There is a Love that transcends every experience that a human being can have of the sensation or the emotion that we call "love." It isn't the love we have for our family. It isn't the love we have for nature. It isn't even the love that we feel when we're thinking about a truth and we feel uplifted by it. It is a Love of a completely different order.
Whoever I am, Whatever you see is As nothing at all, Save what Love has made me.
The beauty of Love is that She is already within everything; which means that there is nothing that we are drawn to know by Love's invitation that won't grant us for our journey itself the gift of a greater relationship with Love.
However expressed in us - from the lowest level of sensual life pushed along by pure desire, to that incessant drive to make ourselves special in the eyes of the world, to those loftier ambitions of longing to be an instrument of the creative life, whatever its form, be it lower or higher - it is Love that moves us. It is Love that guides us. It is Love that we seek and find. How? Because it i...
Part 1 It is impossible for one to awaken -- to realize a new mind and a new heart that carries no residue of resentment, let alone the image of some enemy -- until one sees the absolute uselessness of complaining about anything, to anyone... Including to ourselves about our "self." Part 2 Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to fac...
Part I: No one ever walked the path of Greatness who was not first visited by Love who whispered the Way. Part II: What is any display of Greatness but the evidence of a Love first realized and then suffered to be expressed, revealing timeless invisible perfection in a temporal physical form.
Classroom Talk: 6/8/2003 - The love of the Living Light is its own reward, for whoever willingly embraces its Spirit holds in his or her heart the inexhaustible supply and Source of Life itself.