Your present dreams about where to find happiness and fulfillment are the very things that stand between you and the real happiness and fulfillment you seek. They act as a barrier to a special creative power that can pour itself into you right now and make the deepest wishes of your heart come true. **There is a completely different kind of "dream" that lives in the deepest part of all of...
Classroom Talk: 8/17/2003 - Real spiritual poverty, and the wealth of Real Life it fosters in the soul, is a subtle interior state born of the humility in seeing this one fact about ourselves: In our un-regenerated state we live from a conditioned and comparative mind whose infinite desires confine the self to live in a closed circle of infinite wants.
I sense a need in myself to step up the intensity of my spiritual work, but this "sensing" normally follows my realization that I am quite lazy and comfortable where I am. Is there a way to wake up to what I need to do next rather than to merely react in disgust at my own lack of direction? We cannot help but increase our inner efforts as it becomes clear to us that our spiritual sleep is dr...
There is a spiritual idea that appears in the New Testament which states, "Ask and ye shall receive. Knock and the door will be opened to you." It is our mistaken belief this idea is saying that all of our desires will be fulfilled simply by asking God, and that our "order" should be filled to our exact specifications as quickly as possible. Most of us have to learn the hard way about what it...
GF: Hello and welcome. Before we begin tonight I would like to introduce you to some new ideas intended to help us transform these disturbing times on earth into something of great spiritual benefit. If one has any sensitivity, then one must ask: Why is there so much hatred everywhere? What has happened that human beings are so willing to destroy each other, and at the same time feel so justi...
I am pregnant and I've already felt the strong precious being inside of me. Especially when I am praying I feel the Spirit in my child. What words of direction can you give to me about being a mother who nurtures and never crushes or hinders a child's awareness of the Truth? I desire for my child to be truly free from the inside out. I'm confused about whether or not to help my children learn...
Most of the popular spiritual/new age/people giving advice on how to manifest the life of your dreams etc, are telling us that we need to imagine and dream and 'think positive thoughts' to be able to manifest the life we deserve. We are told to construct 'dream boards' and to feel the excitement of our desires as though they have already manifested. Can you help me understand this a little bet...
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More and more these days, as a result (primarily) of unproductive spiritual practices fomented by false teachers, I receive questions similar to these that follow. My answers follow. What is your opinion on the use of psychedelics by aspirants who seek to know life that way? If psychedelics can revitalize a relationship with life thus making more valuable people, spiritually, then why do you...