Is 'awakening' the ultimate goal in our spiritual journey? The sleeping nature rules my life most of the time. If I keep working to come awake in small moments, will there be a full awakening for me at some later time? I have had moments of spiritual awakening. Yet, these moments seem to fade all too quickly. When such moments arise, I have a new depth of clarity and silence. Are there any spe...
I've been a pirate... looting the hearts of any I could board and pillage for my pleasure. I've been a priest... consoling, and confusing any I could deceive and profit from by my practiced piety. I've been anyone... that everyone wanted me to be...
"Simon" is a symbol; it isn't some one distinct character any more than joy has one face. "Simon" represents a relationship between different levels of consciousness in the midst of their constant communication. Our trouble is that we mechanically identify with parts of this "dialogue" and say "I" to something that is not who we are. This is why by working to observe ourselves -- by bein...
Almost every day I receive a letter, an e-mail, or phone call from an aspirant who wants to know, essentially, the following: "What must I do to succeed spiritually?" Or, in a slight variation on that theme: "What's the right way to do what I must in order to awaken?"
Everything that happens to us does so for the one purpose of revealing to us something of our present nature.
Following are what may be called the The Three A's of the Peaceful Life. Welcome them as special work reminders to let God's will be as your own. If you will take these new intentions and inner attitudes with you into your day, then you will soon realize what it means to let go and know peace. Work to trust in the Goodness of God's moment, so that instead of trying to dig...
Learn how to harness the greatest power in the universe -- Love itself -- to have a new and vibrant relationship with every moment -- and every person in your life. * Learn the secret of turning every event and relationship -- even bad ones -- to your advantage * Experience a deep new kind of love that never fails you * Discover the light, bright, and true purpose of your...
Classroom Talk: 7/19/2002 - Part 1: When we feel overcome by a life seemingly turned against us, it is vital we understand these moments are not the outcome of some bitter Reality set against us. This suffering that seizes us is born of our resistance to seeing that the present foundation of our self is nothing like we had imagined it to be. Each such glimpse is a Gift of Reality, not Its denial of our hopes...
Topics covered: Our mind is always struggling with what is happening because it does not match up with what it believes should be happening. As a result, we see everything as being flawed; Presently our lives are predicated upon struggling to get others to see life the way we do; Being spiritually asleep, resistance becomes our chief advisor, telling us what we have to do in order to get rid of the pain of unwanted moments.
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 21, 2018. Untouched, uncorrupted by what once was, and yet unfolding from it -- as does a tender new flower from its stem -- comes forth the ever-present moment. But (such) newness holds no familiar pleasure for a mind locked in time: where its struggle to be free unfolds in self-spun captivity, an unwitting but willing captive of a prison whose b...