As the chaff is gradually threshed from the wheat... It's not hard to imagine that the wheat may "feel" as if it is losing itself: as if all that it has been -- or known -- is being taken from it. In much the same way, a sincere aspirant (who seeks unconditional Love) may feel as if his life is being stripped away by the light and action of a "Divine Miller"... Who first reveals, and then clea...
The justification of any negative state serves one end only: the protection and the preservation of the nature responsible for its manifestation.
The strength of your resistance to any unwanted moment proves the extent to which you have unknowingly agreed to enclose yourself in a pattern of unconscious expectations with people, places, and possessions. This is an unseen agreement whose bittersweet "reward" is that familiar, but false sense of comfort -- born of a thousand unchallenged repetitions -- where your expectations run merrily...
It's a simple, beautiful truth: Resentment hurts. Forgiveness heals. In all cases. No matter what. The problem is that sometimes it's really hard to forgive. There is a part of our mind that loves to hold on to painful thoughts and feelings -- even though they aren't good for us. It's not our fault that our minds have been conditioned to work this way, but now that we know what's g...
I lost a great deal of money to a dishonest business partner. I can't believe I could have fallen for such an obvious scam or that a person I thought was my friend could have stolen from me what I had hoped to be my children's legacy. I'm burning up inside with rage, guilt, and concern over what my children will do now. I know this is killing me. What would you do in my position? I am feeling...
If all of creation didn't share something in common, something invisible... yet in some ways more real than the objects that reveal and manifest that relationship... then how could the death of a tree bring life to the forest...
There are many things in life we don’t know until... One fateful day someone, or something, comes along and shows us the Truth of our matter. And then, in less than a heartbeat, impelled by some unimaginable movement of reality, it’s as though we’ve always known that Truth...
One of the marvels of our lives is that they can undergo a natural healing process when our wish for an awakened consciousness allows the Truth to shed its curative light.
The unimaginable reward of persisting through whatever stands in your way is the eventual and inevitable discovery that you are created to change.