Reflections

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Forever Arriving in Wholeness Jan 05, 2021

Always exploring, yet never arrived.

Never arrived, yet always at home.

Always home, yet seeking to know home better.

 

There is always more growth to be grown into. More of life to be discovered and more of us to be revealed. There will...

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The Time is Ripe For Finding True Freedom Jul 03, 2020

It’s clear we are living in an evolutionary time of major social and geo/political change. Most of us are also acutely aware that this time of change is stirring up powerful emotions, feelings, energies and conditioned behavioral reactions.

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CONFIDENCE Jun 01, 2020

Developing self confidence with the aim of stabilizing our inner sense of peace, is a flawed strategy.

A more powerful and enduring endeavor is to focus our attention on self realization – discovering the Truth of who we really are.

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The Reward of Mastery is Going to Cost You May 22, 2020

Some of the best carpenters I’ve ever met are missing a finger or two. Some of the best mechanics have seriously calloused and scared knuckles from all the times that the wrench has slipped. Some of the best singers in the business have at...

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E M B O D I M E N T May 02, 2020
I sat in meditation and pointed awareness to a concept of inner peace that my mind had already distorted since my last mediation.
 
There I sat trying to stitch fragments of uncooperative and fleeing thoughts back together into a...
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S T I L L N E S S Apr 22, 2020
The awakened self is Infinite Stillness – witnessing with unwavering equanimity and grace the finite and ceaseless creations and movements of mind.
 
All movements of mind (chasing desires, retreating from fears, clinging to...
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The Presence of Peace Apr 16, 2020
How do I find peace within the disturbances moving around me and within me?
 
You don’t.
 
The disturbances are moving within the presence of undisturbed peace.
 
Peace does not return when the disturbances are...
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The Fundamental Error Apr 08, 2020

You are not who or what you ‘think’ you are.

Consequently life is not about what you think life is about.

The fundamental error is believing that life is about satisfying the needs of a thought-constructed separate ego self that you...

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You Can Use a Thorn to Remove a Thorn Sep 30, 2019

You can use a thorn to remove a thorn.

In a meditation of inquiry, you can use the mind as a tool to point to a revelation of Self beyond mind.

This revelation of Self is experienced as a “sense” or “essence” within and not...

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The Unification of God and Soul Within the Human Experience. Aug 12, 2019

The journey and experience of awakening to divine consciousness as our larger and eternal truth is not an easy experience to describe.  Even that sentance right there will evoke within most a doggish tilt of the head and a confused...

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