Until we learn to see -- and accept each moment as being perfect in its native appearance -- regardless how unwanted it seems at first -- we will never know the incorruptible peace and contentment that comes with knowing -- and agreeing to embrace -- the Truth that sets us free.
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Classroom Talk: 9/21/2022 - Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing to be... that is, assuming we continuously agree to step -- consciously -- into its timeless stream.
In the grand scheme of things, everything that God gives you – for its darkness or light, pleasure or pain – is so that comes the day when, within you, is awakened the wisdom and will to give it all back to Him.
Topics Covered: The root of the loss of freedom is in the consciousness that arrogantly tries to create freedom according to its idea of what freedom is; We rush through life to get to where and what we already are, which is already whole; Negative reactions are the dark effect of misunderstanding who we are; We're never where we are, doing what we're doing because we are always...
The appearance of any disturbance felt within us is the stirring touch of life. The part of us that resists this sense of being "upset" by life cannot create the equilibrium it seeks; in truth, by its very nature, this resistance prohibits the very peace it pursues.
Classroom Talk: 5/7/2004 - When we rush through anything, we miss seeing everything.
Classroom Talk: 5/7/2004 - When we rush through anything, we miss seeing everything.
Classroom Talk: 11/19/2004 - In time, life makes momentary rulers of us all; but only the one who learns to rule himself loses nothing when kingdoms fade away, as they must!
The more (we) mistakenly open a door to any negative reaction that comes knock-knock-knocking there, the more it will come back around -- bringing ‘relatives’ with it -- until there’s neither place nor peace left in our Home that we can call our own.
Any moment we can remember to break out of habitual thought -- and simply know that we exist -- is the same as realizing a new and higher level of consciousness that thought will never know, let alone share in a measure of its perfect peace.
Only by coming to know -- intimately -- the Divine purpose of each moment in our life can we hope to play our part in the fulfillment of the purpose of Life itself... which is the only relationship in which dwells the perfectly fearless, unshakable peace of the Divine.