Topic: 25 Ways to Give Yourself a Love That Never Stops Loving You (12/23/20 Classroom Talk)
We do not cease to exist when, having surrendered ourselves to the star-lit depth of a dark night sky, all thought subsides; or when for the invisible touch of an unsought love our heart is filled with a gentle stillness; rather it is only within moments such as these -- when we are enabled to forget about ourselves -- that it may be said we really live!...
The soul of hard-heartedness lives in that unappeasable part of us that refuses to look upon the residue of its former "loves", coldly regarding them as worthless now because their "value" had been spent; meaning that they no longer provide this self with pleasing sensations by which to feel good about itself.
Between our known negative reactions towards those who we perceive to have offended us, and that healing unknown Love that restores us to the truth of each other, is hidden a kind of conscious changing ground... an inner realm whose entrance is gained by willing intention to Love, and whose sanctuary is won through self-sacrifice. Have you ever been so upset, so disturbed by someone, that i...
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Topics Covered: We're drawn to what we're drawn to for the purpose of discovery; Everything we will ever know or ever be is already in our soul; Your soul is seeded with the love of something for the purpose of self-knowledge; Love sees to it that love develops; We love the pleasure of tomorrow, but the pain we experience cannot be separated from that dream...
Our experience in life is what it is teaching us: that the whole business of reaching for what we do and the way we do it is incapable of producing the perfection that our heart is looking for. What is it about seeing a great performer, a great athlete, a great mind that makes them seem so special? Is it what they have been able to bring into their lives as a result of what they love? Or is it the love itself that the person has become an expression of?
Topics Covered:To "love thy neighbor as thyself" is impossible until we are conscious of ourselves; You cannot really love another human being and want something from them at the same time; The two principles of "love thy neighbor as thyself" and "the observer is the observed" are very closely related to each other, if not the same thing; No one that we know is the same person...
Everything under the sun wants to be loved. Trees reach up for the sunlight that brings them life. Flowers need the touch of the bees that pollinate them. Babies cry out to be nourished and protected. We can state this same celestial principle in different words: Everything in existence seeks what it needs to complete itself... and this includes negative states like anger, resentment...