Every daring dismissal of what we have already been is a conscious invitation to what we are yet to be.
Classroom Talk: 2/6/2002 - See through this trick and triple your productivity: Those stressed parts of us always asking us how will we get everything done that needs to be done, especially when there is so much to do, are themselves incapable of doing anything other than wasting the precious energy we need to proceed... Even as they use these same forces to lend themselves a heightened but false sense of importance.
"Abundance" is the key word of the past few years. Countless "experts" offer their methods for actualizing life's bounty, from goal setting to affirmations to visualization. But if you've tried them, you know they just don't work. They can't, because they ignore the genuine -- and only -- secret to the abundant life. Fortunately, this life-altering secret has been carefully and meticulously...
Look closely...and you can see that every spring flower hides within it worlds within worlds. But, as we are now, we see only small and mean objects; we walk through separate worlds seen as either stepping-stones or boulders in our way, and so we sacrifice celestial communion for worldly compensation and its inherent conflict.
True nobility is not a question of birth right or social rank; it is the native estate of each soul that, upon awakening to its divine inheritance, knows the strength of these twin truths without having to think about them: justice and mercy are one, as is love and fearlessness.
I have long been investigating my personal career goals and see how they contradict what I really love and wish to do. I have been guilty of pursuing money first , but after years of feeling like I haven't really succeeded (despite aiming for seemingly better circumstances), I see I am no better off financially. In fact, I have less comfort and material possessions and more debt. What steps do...
Topics covered: Liberation is simple. It is as simple as realizing the truth of yourself in any moment of feeling resistance; Our present idea of being a successful human being is measured by the goals we outline that we think we must achieve in order to complete ourselves; Built into humanity's current mindset is a preconditioned attitude of how the moment should be...
Nothing is wrong with desiring financial independence, but this kind of freedom isn't what you really want. What you really want is freedom from a self that torments you each time it compares itself to others it imagines are happier than you are because of what they possess. Truth be known, these people are possessed by a kind of spirit that can never be satisfied, as evidenced by the fa...
I have struggled with anxiety and fear all my life. I have taken medication for this for over 20 years. I have been to therapy and I am in the Work every day. One of my major goals has been to get off medication completely and since accomplishing that, there have been some very, very tough days and nights -- bouts of insomnia and days of pain and irritability that have challenged me to the hil...
It is what we attend to that determines what we will ascend or descend through.