He is full of himself, filled with himself, and mistakes all of the fleeting sensations he clings to...as life itself. But in his hands he holds nothing save for a temporary agreement, a fleeting marriage of his own best ideas about himself confirmed for the moment by the world in which he seeks himself. This unconscious union of ambition and condition, of desire and conforming circumstance,...
Whenever we collide with any event, and then run away from the scene of the crash, we lose the opportunity to discover that the only collisions we have in life are with what we have yet to understand about ourselves.
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...
We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.
While experience may serve as the path to self-knowledge, still it remains the lesser half of the path to self knowing.
Real Life does not prey upon us; it is our unconscious desires that drag us down and that denigrate the moment, making of us little more than "fast food" for an unappeasable appetite.
Learning to "wait on the Divine" -- a state that sounds delicious -- requires the discipline of a singular action soon found to be anything but desirable. This stage is known as having to "wade through oneself!"...
To begin being unwilling to act out unconscious thoughts (and their desires) is the birth of Higher Consciousness and the Spark that ignites the revelation of the Light that dwells in the darkness that comprehendeth it not.
We all know what it is like to be held captive of the little things in life -- those petty concerns and small desires that steal their way into how we look at our lives and pit us against anyone or anything seen as trying to take away our anticipated desire. Here is a short list of these little troublemakers that often make big trouble for us whenever we mistake them for being our friends: 1.