Happiness, love, peace, compassion, and contentment are timeless states of being in the Now. In their original principle they are without form, having no beginning or end. These forces of the Living Light exist in themselves and have no cause apart from their celestial source, much as the sun exists apart from the life-giving light that radiates from the surface of its hydrogen heart. But for...
Before you can learn how to change your destiny, you must first realize that secret place within yourself where your own future is created. You must consciously enter that place of power where all of your life-choices are made for you. It's called the present moment: The now. And this now is the seed of all that comes later. The following paragraph helps us see into this great mystery. It...
Each life lesson gained, each timeless truth gleaned by agreeing to go through what we would rather not, confirms a great secret unknown by the masses: the whole universe had to have participated in that moment of our transformation, otherwise none of the necessary elements could have been in the right place at the right time to deliver that perfectly tailored lesson. Here, we find personal ev...
Sometimes when you rush in, I feel as though I am standing upon the bank of a river rising up in me, and that you are its sudden waters coming over me. Caught up as I am in these moments, all I want is to be carried away. I want to offer myself, toss myself into this upwelling; but I don't know where to find the edge of these waters in order to leap. In these times I feel as the parched eart...
Classroom Talk: 11/17/2004 - The power to be quiet and at peace comes to those who have seen that peace and quiet cannot be granted by any power that the mind imagines and pursues.
It is not enough to just passively receive the lessons we are given. We must act upon their revelations and further clarify their import.
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Spiritually speaking – as a required agreement essential in facilitating one’s rebirth – one must learn how to be at peace with (consciously) suffering the presence of a false sense of self that can never know the peace it seeks.
The "hard" part of this practicing of presence in the now is that our habitual mind, the false self, wants to know itself through one thought or another.