Until we understand that the revelation of some undesirable quality in our consciousness is not an accusation, but a Divine invitation to realize and transcend that unconscious character... we will continue clinging to the false belief that judging ourselves proves we are superior to what we judge.
We can realize all we are meant to see -- and to be, accordingly -- only as we allow self-awareness to serve its highest purpose in life...
Freedom is what remains when we see -- with new eyes -- that we have never been anything else...
What is real spiritual strength? It is knowing that we need never (again) compromise ourselves in any way -- with anyone, or over anything -- in order to be at peace. (It is) a perfectly quiet confidence in the awareness that our existence owes no debt to any condition, let alone to the passage of time in which it temporarily appears.
The spiritual journey is not a movement through time, as if one travels from “here to there”; rather, it is an indwelling realization of the interaction of celestial forces giving birth to an immaculate conception...
Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment...
Just being fully present to yourself negates 95% of your missteps in life; the other 5% of the time, when you have to pick yourself up off the ground, serves to remind you of how important it is to always be watchful...
Topic: What to do when your whole world turns upside down (classroom talk 1/12/22