The will to be free belongs to that special part of us able to remember that we are here on earth to grow beyond the limiting influences of our own unawakened nature; it knows we are not created to participate with anything that causes us to suffer unconsciously. Our task is to awaken ourselves to this Higher Will within us that won't be compromised. How is this done? We must remember -- now a...
Spiritually speaking, we have but one problem: we are unable to see that the source of our conflict with life...
By and large, everything we condemn in others is just a way of hiding something similar within ourselves.
Our lives are nothing but a series of invitations, a series of moments in which we run into what we don't know. And in this experience of our own limitations, something good and natural takes place. In its constant stirring and seeking, life feeds back to us the boundaries determined by our present understanding.
As we're about to discover, the little phrase, "I see myself," describes a single action that has the power to change the heart of whoever is willing to embrace its practice. But, before we examine the exercise, let's take a closer look at what it means to "see ourselves" -- as we are -- especially when someone else has failed to please us.
We can't really know love's power to free us, to fulfill us through our relationships, until we gain some totally new ideas about how to see, and then interact with others. Not just a rehash of our past failed viewpoint; we know that path is powerless to heal the aching heart. An altogether higher view is called for. We need to be able to see others through the "eyes" of a completely fresh understanding...
Have you ever noticed that the more negative you get, the more difficult everything about your life becomes, including being able to do the simplest things? Even your intention to work spiritually in some way -- to develop and transcend yourself -- now sits in the hands of a very negative self, a dense level of self that sees nothing but darkness ahead of it.
The power of being unconditionally kind towards those who unconsciously hurt us is just one of the gifts of higher love. In a way, it gives our heart "eyes" that can see what they were blind to before. For example, by its light we're able to see that the needs of others are really the same as our own, an insight that makes it impossible to mistake their pain as being somehow less...
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Our task is not to create newness, but to enter into relationship with an already existing part of us that is always new and being transformed. In this rejuvenating talk you will learn how to cultivate the 5 conditions essential for entering that relationship, including clear eyes, a quiet mind, and more. Discover practical steps to take so you will always be able to start over and be renewed.
In order to nurture our own awakening, we must first see the need to let go of those parts of us that we sense no longer serve us. This new kind of self-awareness is the interior “seed state” needed to outgrow and transcend our former level of self. But these seeds of higher self-knowledge must, in turn, become new actions if they are to awaken us to our immortal Self...
I believe the more I comfort and fill myself with thoughts of a "brighter tomorrow," the better off I am, but I can see... all discontentment belongs to an inconsolable level of self that doesn't exist without seeking something to complete itself. So I will no longer identify with its sense of emptiness. 2. I may be convinced that you're responsible for my...
Whatever it may be that we find wanting in someone else, we must learn what it means to give that very thing to him or her.