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Here’s why truth teachings through the ages speak of our being “blind,” as well as why -- if we hope to know the Divine -- we need new “eyes to see”...
View ContentWe have in us -- built over time as part of the construct of our personality - a literal host of demands. Things that over time have been thought over and over and over again until the construction of those thoughts becomes an unconscious attitude. For instance, if you think enough times, "Why are they doing this? I shouldn't be treated like this!" Gradually, you walk around with a chip on your shoulder, but you don't know it's a chip on your shoulder...
View ContentA tree has many leaves, and -- in one way or another -- the wind touches all of them; some shake, some quiver, some hardly move at all...
View ContentAny experience we don't want cannot be separated from our negative reaction to it...
View ContentFear of any weakness is a part of the weakness feared...
View ContentWe are created and each of us is intended to discover the truth of ourselves within ourselves; no authorities are needed. Our lives -- and all of our relationships as revealed in the present moment -- are the ground we must plow. These soils, rendered receptive through conscious humiliation, are seeded with our intention to be kind and true to one another, to give up our selfish ways, and to willingly embrace whatever life lessons we need to further...
View ContentIf -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true...
View ContentWhen we’ve seen that we can’t "prove" ourselves in this world without having first compared ourselves to it -- and that this endless comparison is the unseen root of conflict...
View ContentWhat a strange mystery; a paradox locked in some seemingly timeless conflict. After all how can all of us feel this great need for change, to make ourselves and the world we live in a better, a kinder place to live for all...
View ContentIt's impossible to see, let alone walk the indefinable path of the presence moment until we realize we’ve been deceived into looking at virtually every moment of life through the “I”s of the past.
View ContentLove exists. She is never not present although her life-giving presence is rarely perceived, much in the same way as we breathe in air moment to moment barely noticing the gift of life it sustains. Nothing exists without Love. She is the secret Heart of all. These are not just words. They are an introduction to an Invitation created when Time began. To what are we invited? To know that we are already a measure of Love's Timeless Life...
View ContentWe can’t be anxiously looking for real Life, and take part in its rebirth at the same time...
View ContentAnytime you feel the need to stand in the healing Light of the Divine -- and then act to honor that wish -- you will realize a miracle: you'll see that you are already in it...
View ContentWhen it comes to any conflict between us, and another -- let alone a person we may love -- anytime there’s some kind of painful drama being enacted... each of us is responsible...
View ContentWhat if you actually understood there is no death? Think for a moment what your life would be like. And I'm not just talking about the incessant human fear of their mortality. I'm talking about those moments in which it feels like you're dying because something has happened to you that you don't like, and how you struggle to keep alive the very thing caught in that crisis -- that nature struggling, suffering instead of understanding that the moment has come...
View ContentThe reason why the search for the “Truth” of oneself is called “pathless”... is because it’s not taken in steps, let alone in any known direction; rather, the “journey” to authentic self-liberation is found...
View ContentEven if your best efforts -- the work to be awake, and attentive to your inner life -- feels as if it's failed to produce any real result... nevertheless, persist...
View ContentThere is one essential reason why there is so much constant heartache and war on this earth, and why conflict has continued as it has down through the ages. The answer may surprise you...
View ContentNew, true self-knowledge re-orders the world we see because, for one thing, the way we experience each moment of life is inseparable from how we understand it...
View ContentAlmost every day I receive a letter, an e-mail, or phone call from an aspirant who wants to know, essentially, the following: "What must I do to succeed spiritually?" Or, in a slight variation on that theme: "What's the right way to do what I must in order to awaken?"
View ContentThough we have yet to understand it, and yet must... if we ever hope to be the best we can be, is the following truth: our awareness of any yet-to-be perfected character in our consciousness IS NOT a judgment made by the Light that has made us aware of it.
View ContentWe are not being called to be more than we are, let alone to judge ourselves when we see we have missed the mark; rather, we are here to discover...
View ContentSo-called “self-love” is the endless hunger of an unconscious nature for the attention of others...
View ContentI'm going to give you five ways to make the most out of every moment of your life. They're very simple ones. Then I'm going to explain each simple one. These actually are presented to you in a specific order because there's a broader story. Whenever I order principles, there's a broader story that's told in the collective understanding of them.
View ContentOnce we learn what it means to see ourselves, to accept every impression as the herald of the new self-knowledge that it brings, then we will not only understand what it means to welcome each such revelation...
View ContentSpiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. And self-knowledge, in turn, serves a single purpose: discovering the truth of oneself...
View ContentReal freedom isn't the ability to imagine an endless series of solutions to old problems, but to awaken the higher understanding that allows us to transcend the need we have to live with any painful problem at all...
View ContentIt's always the right time to discover something new and true about our own nature...
View ContentOur lives, as they are, are less than half of what they are intended to be. We can recognize that something is clearly missing. Often, even though we come up with: "It's him," "It's her," "It's this," or "It's that" which is clearly missing, it turns out that we may even get these things, and things still seem to be missing in our lives...
View ContentNo psychological reaction is a call to action; it is merely a momentary manifestation, and therefore part of the revelation of the level of consciousness from out of which it has come...
View ContentBeing is a conscious relationship with what is now; knowledge is a relationship with what was, the conditioned content of the past...
View ContentKnowledge doesn't exist without the past, while the Light of higher self-awareness has no past.
View ContentWhen fear creates morality, as well as the rules governing them, there is no longer morality... and it is fear that governs...
View ContentQuestion: My partner and I have had so many painful experiences along the spiritual path, encountering people and paths promising at first and then proving to be so empty! In all honesty, one hardly has the heart to keep going...
View ContentDo you know people who, when things are going well for them, but things are going bad for you, will tell you: "Let go and let God"? Doesn't it drive you crazy? They got a check that day or they lost a few pounds, or it's a good hair day, or whatever it is, and they say, "Let go and let God." And of course, if they could see, you want to throttle them at that moment for their insensitivity...
View ContentOnce we understand that all forces -- even the seemingly contradictory ones -- are secretly complementary, we stand on the threshold...
View ContentJust as the Light of Truth is timeless, so too are its Laws...
View ContentThe proof that every moment - including the most painful of them - is unlimited in its Divine possibility is that one soul perishes for the fear of them, while another (soul) is perfected, and liberated by the same. Simply put, that means that every single moment of our life holds within it, if you will, a kind of fork in the road. "I came upon a fork in the road and I took the one that was least traveled."
View ContentThe unwanted moments that move in-and-out of our lives are like shadows that pass through a forest on a sunny day...
View ContentQuestion: I have been having a bad problem with losing my love and ambition for listening and making music. Music is discipline and I have dedicated most of my life to it, but recently I have seen my ambition for it -from practicing my instrument to enjoyment of listening it - go to zero. I actually played a gig recently and found myself not enjoying what I was doing. Any advice on how to get the love back?
View ContentWithin each of us lives a tireless, latent longing to touch -- and be touched by -- life's invisible celestial forces. For instance, whenever we stand as a silent witness to the endless expanse of a dark night sky, we are inwardly moved by this outer display of timelessness spread out above us...
View ContentJust as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand its light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things, neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and encompass all things...
View ContentNo negative reaction has the power to release you from what it blames for your pain in that moment...
View ContentBeing renewed by Life, and starting life all over are one and the same superior, interior action...
View ContentSpiritually speaking, we have but one problem: we are unable to see that the source of our conflict with life...
View ContentYou can be self-enlightened instead of self-frightened. You have a choice. This discovery that you can always choose in favor of yourself is real excitement. You do not have to accept your present life-level. Life-level is what determines whether you sail through this life or sink in it. At present, it may seem to you as if there are times when you don't have much choice in your own life. I want you to know that this is a lie...
View ContentQuestion: My ex-husband is a drug and alcohol addict. The alcoholism has especially worsened over the past several years. I covered it up for years with others, then could do it no longer. I now receive punishing e-mails from him every week. It is affecting my sleep, health, serenity, and a new relationship. I have asked him to stop, and it does nothing, but I don't want to get attorneys involved. Do you have any thoughts on the best path forward?
View ContentThe present moment and our awareness of whatever may be passing into and through it are one consciousness...
View ContentThe witness to experience is not bound by it...
View ContentQuestion: I often overtalk in conversations and am working hard at engaging in give-and-take conversations where I say a few things and then stop and wait so the other person can give a few of their thoughts. To do otherwise can lead to excited talking non-stop, which sounds selfish. What can one do to remedy overtalking?
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