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If you really live

deeply in spiritual practice

then this moment is intense.



Moment to moment,

life is shaking you

out of what you know;

shaking you out of everything

that is comfortable.



So much so that

all you can do is surrender

to this moment.



All you can do

is allow everything

to be as it…

It's amazing how many spiritually minded people I've met over the years who have experienced what I would call 'complicated' lives.

I do wonder sometimes if people become more spiritually aware because they have had to overcome difficulties in their lives, or,  were they born 'knowing' that they had chosen to walk a problematic path through life because their soul was already spiritually…

Unity is a very important theme. It is critical to the resolution of the many problems facing our nation and our world today because without it we will never be able to engage the necessary solutions.

In this election year it’s painfully clear that there are many people with many differences. Many needs. Many perspectives. Many…

Here I will relate my first satori (temporary experience of enlightenment) that really put me on the path to enlightenment:

I was in college in Vermont, having a bad day.  After classes and meetings with teachers, I went back to my dorm room and sat down to meditate.  When I sat down, I just surrendered.  Not that I knew what surrender was but looking back on it, that was what I did.  I didn't practice…

By Eric Allen Bell

When it comes to the subject of Enlightenment I am no authority. I do not possess special knowledge nor do I profess to speak to you now from some elevated…

With each passing day, as I look inward and as I take in what is going on with the world outside, my heart opens. And the more it opens the more I understand why I have kept it shut for so long. The more my heart opens, the more I understand why the world has closed its heart.

 …

I’ve been asked why I’m passionate about teaching forgiveness. It’s because all religious, spiritual and metaphysical roads I’ve traveled have led me here, to this one Truth borrowed from A Course In Miracles: I forgive others for my own peace of mind.



In my late twenties I read the Bible, the Old and New Testament, for the first time. Although I was impressed with the transformation of God’s…

BY DR. AMIT GOSWAMI:  Quantum physics in the form of its famous observer effect (how an observation transforms quantum possibilities into actual experiences in the observer’s consciousness) is forcing us into a paradigm shift away from the primacy-of-matter to a new paradigm: the Primacy of Consciousness. Quantum…

As we close in on another year it is the time for reflection and projection. We reflect on what happened this year along our journey and then imagine and project what we desire to accomplish and experience in the year ahead.

Every year January…

The subatomic particles…

Allan Watts once commented that "It is not possible to see the sky just by painting your window blue". It is a quote that has stuck with me ever since I read it many years ago.





And it occurs to me that the blue paint masquerading as the sky is every…

Beloved One,



Merry Christmas! My friend Lucia has been transcribing lots of my Youtube

videos, and I am happy to announce a new Yahoo group that will host these

transcripts and links to the online videos that they were made from. Also there

is a simple domain name and website that is the gateway to this Yahoo group, so

hopefully this will be easier to remember. You can use the search box function

to type in keywords and phrases of the topics and themes you…

If you want to be free of anxiety

then notice and feel this:

life is happening in this moment.



You are not doing this moment,

you are not making

this moment happen.

It is here on its own.



If you really notice your experience

in this moment,

existence is happening.



And if you disagree,

if you think

you are creating yourself

to exist in this moment,

then stop existing.



Go on.



In trying…

You cannot enter

witness consciousness

if you are still holding on

to judgments.

It is not possible.



Because judgments

separate you from

everything else.



But I am not saying

"don't have judgments"

but rather, in meditation,

turn your attention

back on to yourself

and accept what is there.



Accept whatever thoughts are there,

whatever feelings are there,

whatever sensations are there.…