The search for enlightenment, fulfillment, happiness, even success -- it is all inspired by one driving need: the longing for love. The most potent motivator of all is the longing for Divine Love, for this is the source of all other loves. 12 Years in the Making Begun in 1992, completed in 1997, and now published for the first time in 2004, over 12 years in the making, Apprentice of...
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Once we realize that whatever we will bring into our awareness has always been an aspect of our own consciousness, only not yet awakened to, we also understand this liberating truth: nothing exists outside of us. All destinations are already within us, including the Love we are searching for and the unconditional freedom that It alone has the power to grant.
What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see? In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the anger, impatience, grief, loneliness, or anxiety it has seen... and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with...
GF: Good evening. I want to introduce some special ideas about what is required of us if we wish to spiritually transform our lives. First, to set the stage, a short question about human behavior: Have you ever noticed how -- whenever there is a secret going around among your close friends - you will do almost anything to learn its undisclosed nature? Or if you think someone knows something t...
The following are examples of ways in which one might use the "Be Thou" prayer following one's work with any of the exercises in double attention. Each of the following eight simple prayers is to be felt by the whole of you, one by one, as you address their corresponding parts in the order shown here. As you become aware of...
Our attention is precious. Our attention may be the most important thing that we own, and almost none of us own any of our own attention. Anybody can take it. A phone call can take it. The news can take it. Look in the mirror and it can be stolen. I'm looking in the mirror and I don't look anything like I'm supposed to look, and if I look in the mirror and I don't see what I like, where does my attention go?
It doesn't happen often... But from time to time, one single idea, one stunning revelation, finds its way into your possession... and in doing so, it literally changes the entire course of your life. What you're about to discover will prove to be one of those rare, life-changing moments. **Because you'll be given a little-known secret for succeeding at anything...
There is a way to understand and use our inevitable frustration in life so that we don't continue to make the habitual angry response with all its harmful results. Instead of runaway forces taking charge of us, we would be in control...
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To enter into the next level of meditation is to discover and then realize the next level of your own higher consciousness. With this eCourse you will take a deep look at what mindfulness means, how it can elevate your life, and how you can take your work of meditation, and your wish to gain the gifts it brings, into your daily experience. Special bonus: 14-page PDF transcript of the talks.
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Discover a new type of prayer that isn’t about asking for things we want or need. Rather, it’s about being active moment-to-moment so we can use everything to align ourselves with the Divine. Learn how to use this new kind of active prayer to transform yourself, as it changes everything about the way you see the world around you. Special bonus: 16-page PDF transcript.
We are made in the image of the Divine. Now, that doesn't mean all that we hope it means. It actually means more than that! It means that you and I, as humans, exist in a temporal form that is, for all intents and purposes, a place where a host of magnificent laws and forces converge. Opposing forces reconcile and create a body that is essentially the mirror of a set of perfect opposites -- right hand, left hand, right eye, left eye.