Part 1Unseen by those who feel empty, resisted by those always in a rush, feared by those who resist change, is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, anxiety, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with! Part 2When it comes to desires they can either be a part of your world, serving as intended or you can be a servant.
Can a loving, true friendship between a man and a woman exist without physical attraction or sexual desire? Is this kind of love impossible?...
Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates...
The pain of wanting something or someone usually passes with ones coming to possess that which is desired, but the painful ache of being someone possessed by endless wants never ends until one realizes that the only way to bring an end to these wants - and the self that suffers them - is to wake up to the Truth that one already has everything real and necessary to be at Peace. Such an interio...
There is no reward for love, let alone for being “loving.” Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.
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Classroom Talk: 4/14/2019 - Trying to change our exterior relationship to life without having first allowed it to reveal what needs to be changed within us... is like trying to change our reflection in a mirror because we see something in it we don't like.
As the sleeping mind -- driven on, as it is by unconscious desires -- awakens to see that the only thing thought can do is make circles, it slowly stops seeking. The divine longing of the heart to know unconditional love remains, but the old "action" of trying to think one's way out of pain, and into some imagined "paradise" falls away. Now the veils part... and instead of there being an imagi...