13 Jul Love is a Way of Being in the World – July 14 2019
I was polishing this chrome around the top of the stove. It was clean, but not really shiny. So I took a steel wool and I started scrubbing it...
I was polishing this chrome around the top of the stove. It was clean, but not really shiny. So I took a steel wool and I started scrubbing it...
Your salvation in this area lies not in resisting the truth of your powerlessness before food, but rather in accepting it. For this acceptance leads you straight into the arms of God, however you think of Him or whatever you understand Him to be. You realize, once you accept...
I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul! The trees have, rooted in the ground...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?...
(originally published in April, 2013. Thanks again, Marie.) There's this guy in New York--I say it's a guy, it could be a woman--last spring there was somebody who was drawing on the sidewalk in blue chalk. And all it said was "Happiness"--a big "Happiness" with a big blue arrow, "this way."...
The purpose of the Guru Purnima celebration is to turn back and review and see in this last one year how much one has progressed in life. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination...
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson Sometimes our minds are a steady stream of what should be feared--out there in the world, in here with myself, everywhere. As if there were nowhere to be safe. These fears seem so real. Everything they say...
Love is a quality of Divinity and as such illuminates the Essence and therefore the lovability of others...
The basic things to reach enlightenment are really only half a dozen in number, aren't they? The willingness to forgive, the realization of the limitations of the intellect, devotion to divinity, the respect for the sacred, one-pointedness or fixity of mind to transcend all obstacles, the willingness to be...
You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather. Pema Chödrön One way to approach the "problem" of happiness, and why we may not have it, could be to see what we have that is opposed to happiness. This would be the experience of suffering. Suffering is not to be confused...