If the purpose of life for all of us is enlightenment – the knowledge of who we truly are, resulting in mergence…. If the purpose of creating life for God was that God should meet God in a moment of our enlightenment… (1) then, if we were to envision our situation, would it not make […]
Karma and Free Will are Not Contradictory – Part 2/2
(Concluded from Part 1/2, yesterday.) As I was saying, being only One can be a problem if you want to get to know yourself. If you’re all that is, where is your reflection? How do you capture your image? How do you encounter yourself? Who is there to give you feedback? Goldenlight’s Father or “Source […]
What Do We Mean by “Experience”?
To say “to experience,” as I’m intending the word, does not (necessarily) mean “getting out in nature” or “eating new foods.” It can. But by the same token, we can be out in nature “experiencing” and still be relating to the world from the intellectual level only. I’m referring to there being three levels to […]
I Reap the Harvest
I’m more and more realizing the idiocy of claiming to be an “expert.” I’m left musing after reading Marilyn’s thought-provoking history of the Council of Nicea. The only historical connection I have – even to the Christian Church broadly at that time, save a lifelong fascination with the desert fathers – is with St. Nonnus […]
What am I Doing about How I Feel?
One day, I’m looking again at financial topics. The next day I’m diving deeper into the heart. If for me how I feel is the most important thing, (1) then what am I doing about how I feel? If this were clickbait, I’d be saying I have a wonderful miracle cure to help you “feel […]
My Gal Liza
by Digger Barr Funny thing happened in the state of Washington last week. Everybody stopped wearing masks. Well, almost everybody. There were a lingering few mask wearers. This is the funny part. The newly liberated ardent mask compliers began telling the lingering few they didn’t need to wear a mask. My job is done. […]
Wrestling a Nasty Energy, Before My Morning Joe
Good morning, everyone. It is Dec 29 2021 and welcome to Planet Earth. My morning started early as most of my awakenings do. My super loving cat jumped up on the bed as she always does. Time to curl up close and purr with no regard to whether I was awake or not. As long […]
What is Love?
What is love? The question is unanswerable. What = Which thing or which one of many. (American Heritage Dictionary.) But love is not a thing. It isn’t one of many. Therefore there is no “what” dimension to love. Love is. As far as I’m aware, it exists in a domain prior to things. It is […]
Seeing Life as a Learning Experience
Because I regard all of life as a learning experience – the primary lesson to be learned being who we are -I create hypotheses for me to test out, which then become theorems. Often I resolve to test a thought out because it persistently repeats itself in my consciousness. Approaching life in this manner keeps […]
Hollywood to the Holy Woods – Story on Sadhvi Bhagawati’s Life – & Overcoming Old Ways of Thinking
The noises are inside of us It’s all me, not them and us Just true me and not true me — distinctions Through my meditative practice — gently bringing my wandering mind back — bring it back to heart center When not true me thoughts that have been internalized from the outer world, […]
All of Life is a Learning Experience
That may sound like just a glib statement, but in fact it’s 100% true – in my estimation. Look at life this way. The purpose of life is to know who we are, our essence, our true selves, our one identity. We know the value of that to God: When one of us realizes who […]
Autopilot Set to “Learn”
The way things seem to go, it’s often only after a condition has departed that we learn what it was and what it did. For example, hostility having been recognized and left, I’m now beginning to see some things about it. Hostility has many poses. One of them, I’m now seeing, is “Don’t mess with […]