Part 1 Whoever chooses Love to be his first and last act never loses anything real, regardless what he may be asked to give up in that same moment. Part 2 The one asleep to himself spends his life pursuing the pleasures he loves, while trying to avoid the pain he fears. This divisive level of love is inseparable from suffering, and remains so until... one realizes that real Love has...
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Topics Covered: We must be the ones to do the work so that the seed of self- knowledge can grow; There is an ancient prayer that goes, "From the unreal, lead us to the real. From darkness, lead us to the light. From death, lead us to immortality"; It is possible to change our relationship with our own consciousness. The change in consciousness must be an interior one...
For those who seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with the Divine, or just someone who wants let go of the misery of useless suffering, The Secret of Your Immortal Self opens the doors to new a level of self-understanding that makes both wishes come true... at the same time. It provides powerful insights and practical steps on how to...
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Topics covered: There is no becoming in the Kingdom of Heaven. In that Kingdom it is already done. You are separate from that Kingdom because of a misunderstanding about your true nature; "From unreality lead me to the real, from darkness to the light, from death to immortality." -- The Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.); Somehow you are going to have to die to everything that you think you are.
Topics covered: It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; The greatest prize hidden within our inner life is victory over death. Uncovering the treasure is a matter not of intellectual knowledge only, but of awareness, relationship, participation and understanding; The desert in spiritual stories represents the endless useless struggle to escape from conflict, not seeing that the attempt to escape is the perpetuation of the conflict.
Topics covered: Between awakening and rebirth there has to be a death. Nothing is born anew that doesn't die to what it was before; Our lives are presently the experience of our own creation; Until we are aware of what dwells in the dark of ourselves, we are subject to whatever that nature does in the absence of that awareness; Imagined security requires an imagined self to keep it in place...
In case you did not hear the news, a young man was trampled to death on "black Friday" at a Wal-Mart in New York by more than two thousand people who broke down the doors at 5:00 AM in a mad rush to secure the best holiday deals for themselves. When we hear about events like this, a person can't help but wonder, "What in the world happened?" The official excuse for what caused the mob to rush...