In this world we are seized by desires that affirm the illusion of the opposites wherein, from out of their appearance, is born a separate sense of self that feels it must possess what is desired, or "die". In the spiritual world there is a holy desire; but being seized by it leads to the abnegation of identification; because what holiness desires is atonement: the end of the false sense of se...
Part 1 We can either set ourselves to the task of learning what life wants to teach us about ourselves, or we can resist these revelations, and spend the rest of our lives fighting with the outcome of (our) ignorance. Part 2 Agreeing to meet each moment of life with the right intention of using it for our higher spiritual education ensures that nothing can go wrong for us in that s...
As long as one remains a seeker in the spiritual game of searching for one's self, there will always be ample "prey" to hunt down and devour including an undetected blindness to the fact that regardless of the "feast" of new "I's" consumed . . . one's hunger "to be" never relents. We must cease from this chase and get down to the business of being what we are..
Part 1 Dying to one's self, which is one and the same as spiritual rebirth, is not attained by an imagined grace wherein -- by some "miracle" -- we call ourselves "reborn;" no, resurrection happens, moment by moment, when we marry our willingness to witness what is revealed about us with a celestial Awareness by whose Light alone are we made self-aware. Then... "It is done." **Part 2...
Part 1 We are meant to consciously serve, moment to moment, the Light of Life that ceaselessly introduces us to ourselves, not live in unconscious servitude to the nature of that (passing) character to which we are introduced. Part 2 When living within the limits of what is known is also realized as being the limitation of your spiritual possibilities, then there is no recourse o...
In our spiritual sleep. . . We live with imagined rights that, when denied, produce imagined trespassers. The internal consideration of these now in debt to us grants us imagined powers of pride along with its prejudice. These false forces permit and foster the belief that there is righteousness in being negative, and that it is our subsequent responsibility to judge others for what they hav...
Identifying with resistance to any moment the mind points to as a painful problem of some kind... is the only real problem there is in that moment. To see the fact of this -- which is the purpose of all true spiritual teachings -- is the end of looking for any kind of power to protect, or otherwise restore some paradise imagined lost...
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"If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas:" The only reason that we agree to be in a relationship with any punishing thought or feeling is because -- each time -- we become so immediately identified with not wanting to feel its painful presence that we keep forgetting to remember -- and to practice -- this one spiritual fact that can free us from all dark states: it's in our power to...
Whenever you find yourself in the grip of some mental or emotional suffering, your first action must be -- assuming your wish is to be free -- to remember this one, all-important spiritual fact: no dark state can enter into your heart or mind, let alone remain there, without first having deceived you into welcoming it in, and then convincing you to take its side as it "proves" to you... that...
There is a hidden part of you that knows, without thinking about it, how to always be perfectly relaxed, carefree, and in command. This higher intellectual and emotional intelligence is to your present thoughts and feelings as is the mighty oak to its own spreading branches. Once you come into contact with its perfect strength and power, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Great mas...
We must learn to take the true conscious initiative with each other and then -- based in our understanding of this great spiritual law that governs harmonious relationships -- make the effort to be to others what we wish them to be for us.