Transform Negative Reactions into New Spiritual Strength

Talk Takeaways

Life contains a mystery that you're drawn to -- it's the mystery of yourself.

Agape is a type of love connected to giving yourself up as a higher form of sacrifice for the love of another. It doesn't add something to you, it costs you something -- only then do you find yourself being given something in return you couldn't have received any other way.

It's innate to want new impressions because they stir in you the recognition that what you see outside of yourself is actually a reflection from within yourself.

In order to get to a new you, you must go through the old you. If I see something new I will learn something new.

When you're defensive it's because something within you is telling you that something needs to be protected.

Negative reactions point to and explain to us the cause of our resistance.

One day you will be more interested in learning about the nature of fear instead of looking for its cause.

We are learning to become an inwardly oriented human being rather than one directed outwardly by desire.

We need a new relationship with our unconscious resistance. Resistance is innate in all of creation.

What is active is naturally in partnership with what is passive in order for it to be strengthened. In the same way wind acting upon a tree serves to strengthen it, so are we created to be spiritually strengthened by anything that challenges us. Active and passive are mutually dependent.

Resistance isn't personal, it's divine.

If you learn to enter into the mystery of yourself, you see that the world "out there" is a reflection of your true nature.

You are made to be something that never stops being perfected.

You can't learn to love life until you understand the nature of love itself. Love expresses itself in every moment in every creature.

Every moment of life is intended to elevate you to a new view, but you must first become conscious of what is unconscious in you.

In a moment of disturbance, learn to see the resistance that has come up in you for what it is, which is a Divine Personal Assistant.

The way to transcend the condition you don't want is to see that it has specifically been sent to you. Remain present to all the moving parts.

Fear is ungodly because it doesn't exist without separation.