Talk Takeaways

"I am" when I can see.

"We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them, but by waiting for them." -- Simone Weil

Everything outside of us seems separate because we presently we through eyes that either want or don't want what they see.

"The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt on the other side of the world." -- Chinese Proverb

When we live outside of Divine organization, we are disorganized. Observation of the disorganized mind is the beginning of true organization.

A brighter light is always there to reveal the shadows of a lesser light.

You are liberated according to the degree that you are willing to accept whatever is revealed about yourself.

When we don't remember ourselves, we are living from the memory of something that lives at our expense.

The reorganization of your life is the product of the light of awareness. Awareness is the organizing factor.

We turn away from the liberation of revelation every time ambitious desire goes out in search of liberation according to the image it has created.

Instead of waiting for the revelation and the instruction in it, the anxious mind wants to organize the moment according to its preferences. The invitation within every moment is not to reorganize according to our preferences, but to allow ourselves to be reorganized through awareness.

The wisdom of waiting:

"The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him." Lamentations

"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." Exodus

"Do not say, I will repay evil; wait for the Lord, he will deliver you." Proverbs

"Abraham waited patiently, and received what God had promised." Hebrews

"Be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!" Psalms

"They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel..." Psalms

"Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?" Lao Tzu

"Be patient; surely God's promise is true." Islam

"In your patience possess ye your soul." Luke

There is no "tomorrow" for the true spiritual student.

Exercise: Wait and see. Not in the sense of time, but as an active practice of being present. Wait and see all that you can see within you in that moment. Wait and see how you react and want to justify what you've seen. There must be a ceaseless position of witnessing the consciousness that is unaware of itself.