The true, creative affirmation is not the affirmation of the tongue but the affirmation of action, for only through action can things be brought into existence.
Just for today, I’ll visualize how my best version would be acting today, and I act as if I’m already established in that version. … More Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action
Widen your perspective and see that the soul’s journey is always an upward trajectory, that suffering is both transient and necessary if beauty and transcendence is the goal. From within this new perspective, gratitude is not more a chore but rather an obvious and spontaneous response to the path. Love all that is, for all is serving your fine end. … More The Attitude of Gratitude
Then take a deep breath and look away from the script into the now, and tell yourself “I give myself permission to experience my own bliss right now. It’s mine unconditionally and I don’t need any reason to tap into it.” Remember that you ended up here because you told yourself the exact opposite of this, and it worked! So, replace the script and brainwash yourself with it, and there’s no reason it won’t work. So, embrace your bliss; it’s all yours. … More Embrace Your Bliss; you don’t need permission for it
Now, the opposite movement, the ascent to heaven, is not a matter of fixing things or some sort of a material or metaphysical redemption but a matter of awakening to this whole narrative-construct of our situation and realizing that not only we can’t fix things, but also there’s nothing to fix, that nothing is really broken; and that in the final analysis, there’s nothing truly ours, even the stream of our thoughts and feelings and of the human experience in which we always find ourselves, so we are already totally ok and enough. We are just witnessing. Just like God, we have no power over anything, and nothing has any power over us. … More The Three-Fold Lie
There’s an old beggar in our town; he goes around with a bowl knocking at doors begging for food to ease his hunger. Not everyone treats him well; some yell at him and kick him, and a few feed him for a day or two but no more; but he keeps knocking at those same … More The Forgotten Wealth: A Tale of Hunger, Memory, and Misplaced Identity
The idea of possessing spiritual qualities implies a fallacy: the fallacy that you exist, and that you are capable of possessing anything. In fact, the very idea of independent existence is the source of all suffering and the subsequent desire to become spiritual. All this is God’s land, i.e. the land of Pure Presence, so let go of all that spiritual bullshit and try to mind your own business, which simply means: recognize that you are already present and it’s all alright. … More Stop Trying to be Spiritual: Stop Trying, and There it is
To be a good investor is to mind my own business, to become present and responsive to what is mine to do at any given moment, and to remember that my or your thoughts and feelings are not my business either. So, what can I do? To focus my attention on what lies in the domain of my immediate action. And that’s all I have; that is the only thing that’s truly mine in this world and of which I have perfect control: my attention and the ability to navigate it. … More The Best Investment Tip: Mind Your Own Business
What you call hell is you taking this all too seriously, and heaven is your full presence in the play; they are not realities but your perspective on what is! So, drop all this metaphysics; instead, make merry and enjoy the play. … More When God Plays
In relegating the reality and presence of a thing to a substratum, to what’s behind it, I enter into a hopeless pursuit of reality, thinking presence comes from things instead of seeing that it really comes from me. It’s in my presence that the world is present. … More There is nothing but Presence: Don’t try to be present; notice that you already are
To express and realize the desire of the heart, one must call the beloved into presence with one’s all being. All organs, subtle and gross, must call on the beloved: the heart by prayer, the tongue by speaking the truth, the eyes by seeing beauty, the ears by active listening, and the body by selfless service. When all of a man’s being calls on the same thing, that’s well-being and harmony; when there’s divergence and each organ wants something different, that’s disease. … More Of Fratricide, Love, & Prayer: Pleas of a Restless Heart
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