Whatever it is you wish to receive from life, learn first to give this without reserve; but neither should you give in order to receive . . . for this is a secret form of taking that brings you nothing in return but resentment.
Topics covered: You get caught in "thought pockets"; Identification is exclusion and isolation; Awareness starts with being in your body; You can't give yourself the gift of life; Impatience hides itself through insistence; There needs to be freedom to see before there's freedom to be; Everything that comes out of a moment is already contained within it....
stillness, meditation, prayer, letting go, openness, surrender, trying, effort, strain, ambition, spiritual ambition...
Our lives in these modern times seem to consist of nothing but one problem after another. The level of mind that we live from currently is constantly trying to resolve everything that it sees as a problem. Our minds are often preoccupied with trying to change what we don't want, and so we find ourselves resisting life as it comes to us. But is it actually "me" that does not want my present ci...
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Topics Covered: Be present to the parts of you trying to pull you down; Don't stop and pick the flowers... smell the flowers, but keep going; The depth of the illusion is nothing to the light that reveals it; There is no such thing as compulsive pleasure; The very action of thought separates us from what it wants to acquire; Without thought everything is clear; Thought is the disturbance and not...
Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life. It is an accord on our part with what the present moment tells us about ourselves as it unfolds before us, asking of us what it does. And what is it that Life is asking of us moment to moment? It's simple, really...
We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.
We are never less ourselves than when we try to make more of ourselves at the cost of another.
Persistent painful problems in life are born out of one essential weakness: our inability to direct and keep our attention on what we choose to be in relationship with in the moment.