Until we learn what it means to come to a complete inward stop, nothing of a true spiritual nature can start within us.
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Remastered Classic Talk: 11/4/15 - Here is the obvious, but rarely acknowledged reason why we must dig in and do the difficult inner work needed for real self-transformation: if we don't change, we gradually come to wholly embody the very weaknesses whose destructive nature we wish weren't (living) within us. The courage to see the truth of this inevitable outcome gives us the reason, the will and the courage we need to succeed in our quest to regain command over our own heart, mind, and soul.
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Classroom Talk: 8/18/2024 - When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or find ourselves struggling to "add a cubit to our stature," we miss seeing two great liberating truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them...and secondly, blinded as we are by our hope in this "tomorrow" that never comes, we miss seeing - and realizing - that our True Self is a field of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.
The only answer that counts in our spiritual life is the one that we are, not that we "know" with our intellect.
The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred is about the universal and timeless spiritual principles that lead us to the personal revelation of Divine guidance, and the ultimate realization of our own highest possibilities.
In finding any true teaching, there is always the chance that we can become wrongly identified with the conceptual ideas in the teaching, so much so that we begin to draw our life just from the ideas alone. But on the other hand, hearing and studying true ideas is a necessary first step because we know that a true teaching contains right ideas that we need to hear. The potential stumbling bloc...
Classroom Talk: 8/12/2005 - We all long to be known: it is the unspoken hope of the heart that something Greater than ourselves already knows the undiscovered places in our soul, and only waits to show us all that we are. But, as yet, we know not even ourselves -- and true self-knowledge is the secret partner of this longing that accepts no other lover.
The real spiritual rebellion is a quiet affair begun not in strength, but in a new resolution born of weariness of submitting to weakness.
If you are tired of falling prey to the same old negative reactions, the following spiritual facts can help free you:
My concerns for running a sound business and making a decent living for my family seem to prevent me from pursuing a spiritual life.