Sometimes we feel discouraged because our past efforts to meaningfully change our lives have not prevailed over what challenges us. We think, why bother to try now? Perhaps we are disheartened because one of our main hopes for happiness suddenly proves hopeless. Maybe we get downcast some days because our body, or our mind, is no longer capable of doing what it once could in our younger years...
Classroom Talk: 5/25/2005 - Our present mind looks at the universe through what amounts to a pin prick in a piece of paper and declares, by that minuscule light meeting the eye, that it has seen all there is to see!
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Nothing is created to "have and to hold," but rather always to be transformed by the Greater Life in which it is held, and that acts upon it... in order to bring about and reveal the infinite possibilities inherent in its continual perfection.
Topics covered: We meet life through our understanding of it. If we want to change our experience of life, then we will first need to change our understanding of it; We psychologically chain people to our demands whenever they don't do what we want them to do; Your attention is a form of request. Everything that you attend to, even if you are not aware of it, is a form of prayer...
Topics Covered: We presently spend too much time in worldly pursuits because we don't know that there is another world that sits above this present level of consciousness; Real peace cannot be interrupted. Real peace looks for nothing and wants for nothing; Most of our attention is dedicated to a "time to come" in which there will be a "me" that will find peace and be free...
Let's say you saw somebody walking up to your front door and they had this big brick of gold. How many wish that was true? Here's a big brick of gold: "Ah! A reward! Now I can go buy that thing. I can do what I always wanted to do!" But as the person got closer, you could see that the brick of gold had a chip on the side and that it was actually lead underneath. How many of you would still say...
It is a Law: Not of Man's or of Woman's -- but of Life. Before you can have a different life; before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace and in quiet command of yourself, you must first be different. Being is everything. And before you can learn how to be different and change your destiny, you first must realize that secret place within yourself where your own future is created...
To accomplish the present moment is to be in effortless command of all and every other moment.
Part I: The only way to change that which we will be, and have, in a time to come is to learn what it means to work with what we are in the present moment! Part II: Whatever you are not present to, exists...but not for you.
There is only one way to make every moment count: We must be awake to -- and present within -- each new moment if we would ensure ourselves of its proper accounting.
Every moment has a voice. The present moment is a voice. The moment is always communicating. It is the ground of communication between worlds, and it turns out to be the communication too. Have you ever been outside, lost in thought, and then suddenly seen something beautiful? Did not that moment of beauty communicate with you a quality that you weren't...