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The cost of "knowing" real beauty -- of realizing all that is timelessly noble and true -- is to be the emptiness into which it pours, and from out of which it will pour again.

Part 2

Without the emptiness of a dark sky we could not see the fullness of a starlit night.

Part 3

Any sense of a dreaded emptiness that we resist is really just being full of not wanting the moment we're in. But when we understand that emptiness is a Divine state of being, we realize that not only is it a requirement of creation, but (it is) an aspect of a Trinity greater than the sum of its parts. So that the more we will agree to step into whatever may be the emptiness we fear, the sooner will the nature of the Divine empty us of our fear.

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The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize it creates the stress and strain it can't stop trying to rescue itself from; and that the more it struggles to think of a way out of its self-induced conflict, the greater grows its struggle.

Part 2

We are not meant to serve our own thoughts, any more than a farmer is meant to be yoked by his own oxen, and made to pull the plow that readies the field for planting.

Part 3

When you end your involvement in painful thinking, painful thinking ends its interference in your life.

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”: As surely as the still waters of a mountain lake reflect the light of the moon, or that an injury starts to heal in the same moment incurred, the answer to the question “who am I?” is always in plain sight.

Part 1

A 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. And, yes: it may be said the tree "knows" their trembling; but neither the wind, nor the leaves it stirs are the tree that feels their passing touch. Thoughts and feelings are like leaves; learning to watch them move is much better than being carried away with every breeze.

Part 2

No reaction has the wisdom, let alone the awareness to realize the purpose of its temporary appearance; it is powerless to solve the mystery of itself.

Part 3

We are, at once, both the intersection of active and passive forces, as well as the interaction between them, ceaselessly becoming what is newly conceived in their marriage... So that we are at once not only invited as guests to witness this union but -- if we agree to attend these moments, whatever their nature -- we will see that it is, and always has been... our wedding.

Part 4

The seer neither has, nor needs words to be in an undivided relationship with what is (being) seen; seeing is wordless, while the "words" for whatever is revealed conceals its truth. Higher self-understanding has no reason for (the moment) of (its) revelation.

Any experience we don't want cannot be separated from our negative reaction to it; in truth, what we are actually disturbed by is being caught in the middle of an unseen conflict born of not wanting to experience our own unconscious reaction.

Part 1

Fear of any weakness is a part of the weakness feared.

Part 2

The more we try to forget our weaknesses, the stronger they become.

Part 3

Everything created has a weakness until tested; it's what becomes of each and every such revelation that tells the story of whether or not new strength is gained, or its possibility is lost.

Part 4

What is true never stops reminding us of what remains within "us" that is yet to be reconciled, but we are deceived into believing that whatever darkness is revealed by the light is greater than the light that has revealed it. It is not.

Part 5

We cannot avoid any weakness we may have -- let alone resist the condition that gives rise to its dreaded appearance -- without strengthening the very same weakness we fear. All of which means the following: the only real weakness we have is our failure to enter whatever may be the struggle to prove our fears false!

If -- 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, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

When 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 -- then we will also know why we find no peace in winning the approval of others, and why no possession frees us from fear. 

It'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.