Photo Post: Just How Many Things Are Going on Here?
Thanks to Mike!
Wisdom from the World
“Blazing with self-righteous indignation toward others is often what people use to hide their own sins in the shadows. This is probably why Jesus’ biggest problem — by far — was with the self-righteous. When it came to those whom society cast away as ‘sinners,’ Jesus was repeatedly gentle, gracious, encouraging, and forgiving, but he […]
The Ordinary Grows Ever More Extraordinary by Kathleen Sutherland
We’ve all heard the term “the extraordinary ordinary,” used to describe the ordinary waking state experienced by awakened mind. Before even experiencing this personally, we can comprehend it as a pointer. We know that everyday reality is quite strange. After all, where did all this “stuff” come from? Who or what am “I”? After awakening, […]
Cartoon Post: Anything but No-Thing
Thanks to Robbin!
Letter from the Field: Discovering the Very Same Thing That the Founders of All the Great Traditions Discovered
Hi Fred, I just wanted to share with you that I found the chapter, “Claiming Your True Identity” in “The Book Of Unknowing” EXTREMELY helpful this week! “What matters is that we bite and hang on like snapping turtles”..that dogged tenacity REALLY sunk in when I read it! I had read the chapter […]
Letter from the Field: Should We Tell the Ocean That It’s Wet?
This letter has been edited out of my deep respect for the one being referred to. Brackets [ ] indicate where I’ve edited. Hi Fred, I feel absolutely compelled to ask you about this. I thought about putting it on the forum, but want to see what you think. Yesterday, I listened to an interview […]
Cartoon Post: Take THAT, Mr. Nobody!
Thanks to Barbara. 🙂
Video Post: You Are Happiness
Thanks to Steve. 🙂
Wisdom Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire: There Is Only Wild Love
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything. ~Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire French Theologian & Political Activist, 1802 – 1861
Filtering Infinity by Kathleen Sutherland
Each of us is a particular focal point of unity consciousness. The focus is so acute that I, as Oneness, have forgotten how vast I really am, and I experience myself as a separate human being, delineated by the contours of the body. We experience a similar phenomenon within the dream when we focus […]
Wisdom from Katie, Adya, Rumi, & Rupert
“At the beginning there was nothing, and out of this nothingness I could observe how things were born into this world the moment I identified them. I started laughing because I was struck how all those things did not exist until I named them, and it was as if I could see clearly for […]
Poverty of Spirit
My friend Kelly brought this quote to my attention, and also provided the commentary above and below it. I’m a Thomas Merton fan from way back. Kelly is a member of the Continuing Students Program and lives in Switzerland. There’s a famous passage from Thomas Merton where he describes being struck, on a busy […]
Cartoon Post: Adopting or Projecting Perfection
Thanks to Marsha. 🙂
Video Rewind: Making Suffering Your Friend
Making Suffering Your Friend VIDEO PODCAST
Letter from Fred: 30 Years and 1 Hour of Seeking
Sometimes I find a testimonial email has arrived in my box without my asking for it, and other times I’m bold enough to ask for one. I know that what’s happening here seems too good to be true to a lot of people. I understand. If you went back more than five years ago, I […]
Cartoon Post: I really, really, REALLY want to wake up. Don’t I?
Thanks to John!
Letting It All In by Julee Bergstrom
The phases of growing spiritual maturity are interesting. I love it that the unfolding and learning is as if there are veils removed, as one sees more and more. The early phase of Awakening is the excitement that it has been found: Really! In this life; that it is possible and true; that it is […]
Where Is My Mind? by Kathleen Sutherland
We spiritual seekers/finders are quite familiar with the concept that there is no time but the present. There is only now. A quick investigation brings us back to this truth when we stray. Can we find a past? Any purported history reveals itself to be nothing more than evidence of such in our present perception. […]
Video Rewind: The Easiest Way to “Achieve” Realization
This is an oldie goldie from the spring of 2013, right after I rebooted my teaching practice. 🙂 VIDEO PODCAST
Graphics Post: Image-in-ing
This is from an email Mike Zerbel sent out to some of us. I liked both the graphic and his comments. Thanks, Mike! Image-in-ing an apple, we know it isn’t “really” there. The brain image-in-ing itself, where does the imaginging start? Imagine that! I imagined being that which I imagined!