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Discover the Divine Secret Behind the Law of "Ask and Receive"
Posted: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Meeting: Sunday, May 5, 2024
Duration: 57min 36sec
Key Lesson
Part 1
Real Love can never betray you, for whomever starts with and then endeavors through what Love asks of them will come to know this greatest of truths that sets one free -- Love's end point begins -- and has always abided -- within you.
Part 2
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled"... not in a time to come, but in an eternal relationship that transcends time and space: an almost imperceptible singularity from the start, revealed in a whole greater than the sum of the parts.
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Talk Takeaways
The mind seeks in time what can only be given in the present moment, which is a relationship with the Divine that is already being given to you.
Tension is the gap between what you imagine you need and how long it takes to get there.
You will never find peace in a time to come. It doesn't exist there. The idea of a "time to come" is the very disturbance in which you live because you believe in things that you don't understand.
What I ask for is powerless to end the pain that’s doing the asking.
The real peace that passes all understanding is not free of desire, but free of my identification with that desire.
There's no place beyond right where I am, and within what I am. That's where the kingdom of heaven is -- in the here and now.
There must be a creator that puts a need in its creatures for something they don't know how to give themselves.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall inherit the earth." Why? Because they've been divested of their imagined sense of self, by having the honesty and the integrity to see that their life, moment to moment, is the result of all that they've asked for. That's called humility, and that's where peace lives. Peace abides in the land of humility.
The source of your suffering isn't because of the condition that you're in -- the condition is inseparable from the moment of "ask and receive."
Karma is the divine moment where ask (emptiness) and receive (fullness) are a singularity.
Nothing empties that something doesn’t fill.
The tension in your life is because you keep waiting for what you’ve asked for.
You are a living request, within a celestial circulation, and everything depends upon where you give your attention, where you situate yourself in every moment of your life.
Let the need lead. Ask to see the truth and and then act in accordance with what you know is your first need.
If you're as still as you can be, then all will be revealed to you as already having been done.
You can know something about this eternal ask and receive in every moment of your life, if you're willing to have that life as your own.
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