Without effort to become, there can be no barrier. Without a barrier, there is nothing to overcome. Without that which must be overcome, there is no fear. Without the fear of loss, there is nothing to be gained. With nothing to be gained, there is nothing to be learned. Without that which must be learned, there is no ignorance. Without having to end ignorance, no effort is required. Wit...
Stand, like mountain, Bend, like reed. Surge, like fountain, Wait, like seed. Give, like sunshine, Melt, like snow. Live, like springtime . . . Come and go.
All that I am is revealed... wordlessly In the great court of Now, For without need of a single image I am seen just as I am. There is a gentle, but thorough, judgment here... Balanced in a perfect act of justice without prosecution. Whatever the case in question -- it is quietly put to rest So no defense is necessary. Time served is the sentence before this deliberation...
This special writing complementing Guy's talk of November 21st, 2004, contains hidden treasures that hint at an entirely new way of living.
A battle is waged In the deep of me, An epic struggle 'Tween sand and sea, Where one resists The other, so free... Yet, no loss or gain Marks Eternity.
Who struggles to find a way "in" Without a sense of being left "out?" Who searches for new confidence, That isn't filled with lingering doubt? Who could resent another's joy That doesn't feel unjustly denied? And who chases what glitters in life, That isn't dull or tarnished inside?...
We who aspire to a life of Truth . . . in order to unite ourselves within the guiding Light of its silent providence, and to secure the blessings of a freedom that only its presence can provide, hereby establish within and amongst ourselves, for all of posterity, these Articles of Higher Consciousness as set forth in this Bill of Lights. Article I You have the Light to detect, dismiss,...
If all things are means, Then means are the end, Our pleasures and pains But a river's bend; So flow, flow on my soul, Let go . . . once again.
Our task . . . Is to prepare a Vessel to be filled, And not . . . To fill an imagined vessel with what we dream it has been prepared for. The former begins by the light of inner work, fueled by an awakening faith. The latter has its beginning in the darkness of spiritual sleep; its inertia sustained by the machinations of self-centered considerations. The New Vessel is built to ho...
These five special insights present the case for -- as well as the cost of -- true Spiritual Independence. Welcome them into your mind and watch how their secret instructions lead you to the unconditional freedom that your heart longs for. To weigh the value of what this world can reward you with -- you need only to remove the scales from your eyes; for were you willing to measure how many t...
I do not have to be better than you have made me, For you have created me in your image And there is perfection in this promise. But I do have to bear what you would make of me, If I wish to know my maker. Perhaps the greatest, yet least understood spiritual secret in the World is that being what I am is what it takes to make me better; Because only within what I am Is what **...
Within one thought Are ten thousand things, An endless array Of Golden Rings Touching one another, As Love does Lover... Rising to joy upon Heaven's wings.