A silent prayer to make the world a better and brighter place: Please help me to never turn my back on those who have turned their back on me.
God's ever-present life pours into the soul willing to let go of what it has been for the sake of His Love. Into each of our lives comes some fight that must be made; however, the key to true self-victory is not that we "win" at all costs, but rather that we remain true, kind, and innocent in spite of the costs.
Every moment spent in the love of wisdom, accompanied by our wish to keep its company regardless the cost, helps us build an unseen but eternal bridge between the deepest and highest parts of ourselves...
When untouched by the mind we can receive the whole of an impression and thereby be changed by it. Most of the time what we do is involve the mind in the impression by naming and describing it, and because of this we do not receive the whole impression, and therefore we are not changed.
Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of ourselves -- then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional...
Life -- this moment and every moment -- is a school for the education of the soul. At its heart is an invisible core curriculum, a kind of celestial "program" with one great purpose: to help us realize that behind each of the life-lessons that comes our way dwells a divine, just, and loving Intelligence that wants us to be one with its life.
Achievements in and of themselves change little in us they amount to little more than a merit badge that tarnishes in time; rather it is the suffering we consciously endure in the name of love that helps to perfect and transform our nature into something newer and truer; it is not what we acquire, but what we give (up) that actually enriches us.
Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: true spiritual union is consummated only through a growing awareness of one's inner poverty; in acknowledging its actual estate, one's soul gradually matures into an ever-deepening humility that -- since "the beginning" was -- and is -- created to culminate in an act of Love.
In many ways, the true blessings of life often come disguised as the worst moments... but those who will patiently bear the presence of that emptiness -- of what seems a loss, or painful limitation of some kind -- will soon see its temporary mask fall away, and witness there -- in its place -- the appearance of an impossibly kind and loving face.
Here is the great pre-requisite to realizing the Higher Life and Love for which you long: You must uncover why you consistently allow one thing -- i.e., one unwanted event, one disparaging comment, any old regret or familiar fear to become your all... instead of meeting these passing moments with the understanding that the All is meant to be your one thing.
The divided mind has but one love, and that is to divide life in two; nothing is sweeter to this unconscious level of self than creating the sensation of feeling apart from all that it sees. In this way it always has something to do, because it never stops reaching for what it imagines it needs to make itself feel whole.