Only the heart, stripped of its armor by conscious suffering, understands that its emptiness – even its sorrow – is a part of its native wholeness, of its natural and effortless capacity for compassionate love.
If you wish to "love thy God with all thy heart, soul, and mind," then learn to look at your life – moment to moment -- with all thy heart, soul, and mind.
Learn to be thankful that life is being given to you moment by moment, for it is only through such gratitude that love reveals the great secret of rebirth.
Classroom Talk: 2/12/2003 - The endless emotional sensations that enter into -- and that temporarily possess the heart -- are not the Truth of the heart any more than the sun's baking heat, or a winter's freezing sleet, are the same as the sky they fill as they pass their way through it.
Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns...until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.
Eventually you are going to find, through your own work and the opening of your own interior eyes, that which you are intended to find along the road. However, the opening of one's spiritual eyes is a lot different from assessing and mulling over spiritual knowledge with one's intellect. The opening of spiritual eyes means that, now and again, you catch a glimpse of the invisible movement of t...
Part I: Spiritual patience is born in us as we grow to realize that our individual lives are forever being revealed in a great Clockwork whose tireless and timeless mainspring is Love. Our part in this inexorable movement of Life is not to resist what appears untimely in its unfolding but -- providing we will remain open, watchful and honest about what is being revealed -- to realize that ever...
The love of the Living Light is its own reward, for whoever willingly embraces its Spirit holds in his or her heart the inexhaustible supply and Source of Life itself.
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Classroom Talk: 1/5/2020 - Part 1: No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it -- cultivate & nourish it -- until it offers up its latent Good. In much the same way, the soul is a seed; relationships are its ground; and what grows when all is properly cared for... is Love...