I know that one is supposed to work to keep their attention wherever they are, but I live and work in New York City where the atmosphere is so dense and dynamic that you will encounter many impressions from a simple walk down the street, and you can easily forget a particular occurrence by the time you turn a corner. Multitasking is valued and even expected here in the workplace. Yet the city...
The fact that attention can be the beginning of devotion, acting as the herald of humility, or that its misuse corrupts the soul, reveals a great, yet unseen reality: The kingdom of heaven is a River of Being. It is the very Life through which it flows, and upon whose far-flung shores all things come to exist, grow, die, and be born again. This River flows in two...
Classroom Talk: 1/6/2002 - Those moments when we are awake to ourselves, where we are bright and vital and know we are alive, must not be mistaken as the fulfillment of our soul but felt as a gracious reminder of the Life that awaits us if we will finish the journey back to our Spiritual Home.
Spiritual attention is the beginning of humility. Humility is the seed of devotion. Devotion is obedience to the Divine. (Divine) obedience is the origin of freedom.
The energy of life is always washing over you... but when you don't know what to do with that energy, you become dependent on conditions outside of you to stimulate a sense of self, and then become fearful anytime those conditions change.
Learn to see your attention as a form of "currency," for it's not just where you spend your time, but upon what you spend it that determines what you receive -- or don’t -- from this life...
Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's imagination? And, if this is true -- and IT IS -- then what to do with our attention in the here and now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what "may be"... or hold it in the Light of awareness where no shadow can dwell...
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A series of talks on a unique form of meditation and its variations. Students who attended this 6-part series said it revolutionized their daily practice by jump-starting their enthusiasm for meditation and deepening their experience within it. If your meditative practice has grown stale, or if it has never been what you hoped it would be, then this is the perfect program for you.