(I shared a newsletter yesterday, if you’re interested). I remember once driving through light rain and growing increasingly scared of my relationships. I could not fit them together. I did not understand the demands they made on me. I could not bear the demands I made on them. They seemed shallow and dishonest. I couldn’tContinue reading “Bodies of Light in the Mind of Love”
Category Archives: Awakening
Seeking the Law of Love
We have to reach the junction where we see our own specialness, which means being willing to understand that specialness is not love but hate. This is easy to hold as a spiritual ideal but hard to live out in terms of the body. Basically, if we see something in ourself that we believe makesContinue reading “Seeking the Law of Love”
Interlude: Looking is the Holy Spirit
Yesterday I talked about giving our mind over to the Holy Spirit, both in terms of its content and its function. In that way, our problems end. I suggested a next post would relate to how to give our minds over. That’s still coming, but here I offer a side note about what the HolyContinue reading “Interlude: Looking is the Holy Spirit”
Beyond Choice, Love
In a sense, to come to stillness is to see clearly that choice is the last illusion. There is nothing to choose between; there is only this: this this. The many choices that appear to us are always various forms of the one choice, which is the choice to remember God or not remember GodContinue reading “Beyond Choice, Love”
Choice is the Last Illusion
Imagine that it’s lunch time. On the table before you are twenty hot dogs. Each is the same – one hot dog in a roll without any condiments. They are identical. So you’re going to pick one, but it doesn’t matter which one you pick. You can call it a choice but is it really?Continue reading “Choice is the Last Illusion”
Beyond Spiritual Awakening
If I were pretending to know something, which I am not, because I don’t, I might write the following. When you are “awake,” there will be no “you” to partake of the experience, and no “other” with whom to share it. It’s not an experience that one has, nor a state one observes, nor anContinue reading “Beyond Spiritual Awakening”