There are three ways to get what one wants from life: industry, cunning, or love. Industry is good but at best conditional, for it is subject to the passage and ravages of time. The "crafty" inevitably trap themselves. Love, on the other hand, liberates those who seek its company, and it is timeless. When all is said and done, this order of love has the last word because it is its own reward: whatever we are willing to let it make of us, it fashions from itself.
I was thinking this afternoon about the man who introduced you to me. What would I say to him now, if we could meet? Did he have any idea what he was doing? Had he given any thought to what was going to happen to me? How the rest of my life, every facet of it, would be shaped by that moment our paths then crossed? Did he understand I would lose everything I treasure because the only constant...
According to our wish and willingness to give our love to another, there returns to us -- in greater measure than given -- the love we have given. It is, quite simply, the secret of the ages: Love rewards the lover. Isn't it true? The more we love someone, the more love we come upon in our own being; and the more we experience these elevated states in ourselves, the higher we long to go!...
What is the nature of true love? Real spiritual love has nothing to do with anything that we can give to ourselves. True love is not something that we create. This lower nature that we presently identify with and derive a sense of self from is not the thing that is going to awaken and become loving. The reality is that this is God's Life, and if we want to know true love, then we must let go o...
Can you remember a time when you were deeply in love? A time when you were infused by that intoxicating, overwhelming, all-encompassing Love? Is there anything in the world that can compare to that extraordinary feeling? Why is it that Love can transform everything about our lives? It's simple, really: Love is literally the most powerful force in the universe. Love is the embodimen...
It's there... and then it's not, The shadow of the sun. You can neither control the moment it appears, Nor the way it runs to hide itself, Mingling in the shadow of dusk... Until it simply just disappears.
There is nothing that we are drawn to know by Love's invitation that won't grant us for our journey the gift of a greater relationship with Love. What this means in practical terms is that if we want to receive love, we have to give it. Here are some ideas to help you begin this journey of the Heart: First, give your love to something. Do something with your love. Find something you lov...
Part 1 The only thing in us that longs to be flattered are unstable parts of us that not only love to be lied to, but that actively seek that kind of support through the careful cultivation of some appearance we put on in order to win it. Part 2 Too late does the fool who dines on flattery discover that not only has his wallet been emptied, but that he is being slowly, secretly, f...
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Classroom Talk: 6/2/2021 - No one is obligated to feel spiritual remorse; yet, "it is written" in the stars themselves that all must eventually pay for what they have done against themselves, or others. For Justice through Balance is the great Law, enforced by a tireless, unfailing Love... whose final consolation is a pure heart no longer capable...
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 24, 2018. It is impossible for one to awaken -- to realize a new mind and a new heart that carries no residue of resentment, let alone the image of some enemy -- until one sees the absolute uselessness of complaining about anything, to anyone... Including to ourselves about our "self."...
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