We can imagine, and then wish for what we hope will make us whole -- fearless and free -- but real wholeness, spiritual freedom is unimaginable, as is the path that leads us to realize that Divine estate.
There can be no freedom from whatever we may fear...until we stop identifying with a fearful level of self that only exists for as long as we remain asleep and wandering through its dark world of dreaded dreams.
Nothing in this world can answer your true spiritual need to be kind, whole, and quietly happy as long as you consent to live with fear, compromising yourself in the now for the freedom it promises will come later.
Classroom Talk: 9/7/2003 - We do not cheat another when, by cunning or deceit, we seek to gain or otherwise take advantage of him; but we cheat only ourselves of the same moment's power to transform us, to show us that we already possess resources within us so vast that it is we who should be giving to the one from whom we would take!
Classroom Talk: 10/2/2002 - Part 1: Always fighting to stave off the hour feared does nothing to stem that dark tide feared, but only serves to make you a part of its pounding waves that wash back and forth in perpetuity. Part 2: Every time you struggle to save yourself from a fear, all you have really done is saved yourself for a fear.
The following eight points are essential spiritual truths. Individually they represent vital lessons that must be learned along the Path to Real Life. Collectively these same truths hint at the promise of a spiritual power for which there is no substitute: The certainty, compassion, and quietude of a mind filled by the Light of Truth. For the best results read each of these separate truths...
The Wisdom and the strength to let go is not the outcome of preparation; it is born within us – moment to moment – as our willingness to learn the truth about ourselves meets the need to do the same.
This is one of those special books that come around only once in a lifetime. Each page of this spiritual classic sparkles with self-empowering insights, encouraging ideas, and the all-but-forgotten Higher Principles that throw open the doors to the riches of your True Self. Just as bridges must be built between cultures and countries, so too must bridges be built to span the distance between...
Real freedom isn't the ability to imagine some new solution to rid you of some old suffering, but rather to awaken the higher understanding that allows you to transcend the need you have to live with any painful problem at all.
Real life never stops starting over; but, before one can dwell in this newness -- to know a freedom that is evergreen -- one must first see, and then consciously agree... to step out of the stream of thought and into living now.
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Any form of suffering or conflict that tells us to look into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn't just useless, it's wasted.