What Allows?
Back on What Awakes, I spoke to the question of what it is that wakes up. People have many illusions about this. Many have some idea that awakening requires perfection, top health, or deep wisdom. …
Is Time Needed?
Recently, Takuin posted Broken Beyond Repair, a discourse on his moment of realization. When someone awakens, how they experience it varies widely. One may have a bit of flash, some emotional release, or a sense …
White Raven
There are rich legends in these parts about the Raven. How he stole the sun, moon and stars and put them where they are now. I have a copper engraving of Raven stealing the moon. …
Love is a Verb
Love arises in the movement of our being. In the very doing of life. All of expression, everything we experience is an expression of love. Sometimes that may not be so apparent. Then we must …
Finding Love
In my last post, Understanding the Opposite Sex, the message came down to love. In essence, that we should simply love. Be the love we seek. The message not mentioned is that if we want …
Understanding the Opposite Sex
Marianne Williamson is a well known author and speaker who’s work is based on A Course in Miracles. For myself, I like some of her work, but I’m not a big fan of ACIM. (see …
Inclusive
A number of times here, I have written about Unity or Oneness, the end of all “states” of consciousness where we become consciousness Itself. In The Journey – Part 3, I speak of reality being …
Sincerity
“Sincerity is a word that I often use in teaching to convey the importance of being rooted in the qualities of honesty, authenticity, and genuineness. There can be nothing phony or contrived in our motivations …
Not Yet Enlightenment
Tom Stine has posted an excellent article on the question of what constitutes enlightenment. I believe he is using the word Enlightenment the way I describe full enlightenment. As he observes, the experience of it …
Healing Pain
In several articles here, such as The Past and The 2 Causalities, I’ve spoken of how our lives are not what they seem. That time is not sequential and that the apparent causality of the …
Innate vs Illusion
I have spoken here about how we live in a dream within a dream within a dream. The dream of the person in the dream of the universe, in the dream of God or creation. …
Sequence
In This Journey and other posts here, I talk about sequence a lot. It’s the nature of process. Growth and development follows a certain spiral pattern – balance, disintegration, growth, integration and repeat. The evolution …