Learn the secrets of how to let go of what has been holding you down in life. Consider what you usually think of as being the cause of pain or dissatisfaction in your life. Maybe a betraying friend, shaky finances, a difficult workplace, or perhaps a past issue that still punishes you? And why it is that with all you've done to shake this suffering...
Real faith and true freedom go hand-in-hand, because no one is free who lives in fear, and fear cannot live in the one who has faith.
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Classroom Talk: 2/20/2022 - Before we can see that "love is the answer" we must learn to be present to -- aware of -- and above all else willing to go to the heart of the one question that life never stops asking us in 10,000 ways, each and every day.
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Classroom Talk: 4/8/2020 - In the relentless passage of time whatever has been created -- a pungent spice, the prize-winning rose, even one’s greatest accomplishment -- all lose their fragrance, as must all things in time. Only Love -- its Living Light -- remains undiminished; the scent of Heaven is... Eternal.
The first blow hurts the most: It stings like no other. The last blow is a sweetness longed for, It sings of freedom; it brings release. The Wedding Feast is in sight.
Topics covered: When you see the truth of something, there is no judgment or negativity in it. Real knowledge might have sorrow in it, but never anger or violence; Every time that you identify with a thought, you are actually praying for the experience that you don't want; You could not have so many things that you don't want without comparison; The only thing that you suffer over psychologically is what you know...
Topics covered: To paraphrase the well-known koan: If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no one there wishing it didn't, does it create fear or suffering?; The very struggle to escape the captivity of the consciousness that you are born into is why you remain a captive of that consciousness; The task is not to save yourself. The task is to realize a relationship with a part of you that does not need to be...
Don't wish for freedom; choose it. Start by challenging the false notion that, of itself, fear has any real power. It does not...
The work to realize our True Self is the same as our wish to free ourselves, for self-realization and freedom are one and the same truth.
All that glitters is not gold; no thought is new, all are old! So it's true with any pain: The freedom it promises... are but links in fear's chain.
The living Now -- pure Presence -- is not just an expression of perfect freedom; it is its center everywhere: the Ground from out of which all creation arises and returns again.
Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.