Every flood begins with a single raindrop; the small streams they create soon turn into rushing waters, gathering into a force whose power can wash away whatever stands in its path. All dark destructive interior states begin with a single moment of unconsciously identifying with a negative reaction that soon turns into a torrent of punishing thoughts and feelings. Your willingness to choose wa...

Allowing any part of self to act in such a way as to deny yourself a new awareness of yourself -- whatever its quality -- is the same as refusing your right to realize the limitless depth and breadth of your true Self.

Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door...

Our relationships, but especially with those we love, are a kind of "magic mirror." Our partner helps bring us into an awareness of qualities and characters that otherwise we'd never see as dwelling within us.

Understanding... of a true spiritual order... is not in thought, and it is never in retrospect. Illumination is inseparable from insight which, by its nature, integrates all parts of one's being. --- Awareness cannot act against itself. Values are an effect of what one is aware of -- which means the intelligence in awareness is already present as an organizing force. --- Once the aspirant...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 15, 2017. Life is change; it is creation revealing itself. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that our resistance to any unexpected turn in life proves we already know the right way back home.

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/9/16 - 

Part 1: We resist not what we see as being fearful, but rather what fear sees whenever we look at our life through its eyes. And the reason this fearful nature trembles, as it does, resisting its own dark vision, is so that it can feel unsuited to meet the very situation that it has imagined.

Part 2: We are never overpowered by a negative reaction, regardless how strong it may seem; rather we are overcome by misunderstanding our actual relationship with that dark thought, or emotional state.

 

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 29, 2014. We can't change others -- or the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds; but we can work to place one less demand upon both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us -- in the end -- is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.

Recently I have seen a few (real) questions about what is (popularly) termed spiritual "quickening," so I thought I would post a few thoughts about the same. We need never be afraid of whatever may take place within us as a result of our inner effort to be free. This isn't to say that one won't feel fearful, only that we need to be as watchful as we can not to allow ourselves to identify wit...

Only the foolish, or otherwise vain try to create a life outside the inexplicable flow of the Divine. The currency of Heaven is change, and the wise invest in its coin.

As long as you have your back to the light of the sun, it's impossible to outrace your shadow. However, as soon as you turn and face the light, your shadow must fall behind you and remain there, wherever you may go.

The sooner we see the secret relationship between how certain we are over what we think we know -- and the extent of our suffering over the same -- the sooner will we find that elusive freedom that comes only with having realized freedom from the known.