Everything you are seeking –
insight, understanding, fulfillment
and completeness –
is inherent within the present moment.

None depends upon external circumstance.

Find the still, clear, undisturbed
field of Awareness
within which your identity resides,
and everything will be revealed
as a dynamic manifestation
and reflection
of THIS.

It is not about becoming spiritual beings nearly as much as about becoming human beings.

The biblical revelation is saying that we are already spiritual beings;

we just don’t know it yet.

The Bible tries to let you in on the secret, by revealing God in the ordinary.

That’s why so much of the text seems so mundane, practical, specific and, frankly, unspiritual!

We have created a terrible kind of dualism between the spiritual and the so-called non-spiritual.

This dualism precisely is what Jesus came to reveal as a lie.

The principle of Incarnation proclaims that matter and spirit have never been separate.

Jesus came to tell us that these two seemingly different worlds are and always have been one.

We just couldn’t see it until God put them together in his one body (see Ephesians 2:11-20).

from Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality p 17

Okay. Here’s another brain teaser for you:

When you are confused by the people around you,

and frustrated by the circumstances

within which you find yourself,

remember thateveryone and everything within your experience

is a product of the circumstances out of which they have arisen.

Freedom lies in recognizing this nested pattern of relationships –

and in allowing your identification to shift

from the web of interdependent causality

to your Awareness of it.

Let your life be what it is.

Do not expect individuals,
events, objects and circumstance
to provide the satisfaction
you are seeking.

They will not.
Indeed, they cannot.

In fact,
only the Whole
will satisfy.

With this understanding
you will begin to recognize that
within all the separate aspects
of your life,
this larger Wholeness
is constantly manifesting.

And, when you trust this larger movement,
nothing more will ever be needed.

Instead, you will find yourself
immersed in the Fullness of what is,
and Satisfaction will be
the inevitable fruit.

The Daily Guru

Nothing is ever lost.
Not time;
for what seems to have passed,
lives on in the wisdom
of future decisions.
Not money;
for what seems to have been spent,
was only invested.
And not love;
for what seems to have vanished,
has only moved so close
you must look within your heart to see it.

Trust you own innate knowing.

Between mind and heart,
intellect and emotion
lies an intuitive insight
and a silent wisdom
that is guiding
each and every
step.

Seeking occurs in time,

and follows a path

out of the present moment

into an imagined future.

Discovery is grounded

in the present moment,

centered here and now.

Seeking focuses on a distant goal.

Discovery focuses on immediate Reality.

Seeking is fueled by restlessness and longing.

Discovery is delighted, fulfilled and satisfied.

Seeking is predicated on lack and grasping,

– and a sense of something missing.

Discovery is completely open and receptive

– accepting and embracing Reality,

exactly as it is.

from: The Daily Guru

With Clear Seeing,
Reality does not
suddenly change.

All that shifts
is our perspective –
and we eventually rediscover
the familiar Reality
we have been seeing
all along.

The moment of awakening may be marked by an
outburst of laughter, but this is not the
laughter of someone who has won the lottery
or some kind of victory. It is the laughter
of one who, after searching for something
for a long time, suddenly finds it in the
pocket of his coat.

When you question your own self-worth,
and doubt the inherent value of your life,
you are actually second-guessing
the wisdom of your Creator.

Be wary of presuming to know
more than God!

It is far better simply to trust
there is a reason you are here,
and to act with an assurance
there is a purpose
your life will fulfill.

Your openness, acceptance and confidence
in the Hand that put you here
will enable others to see that Hand
working in and through your life
– even when you cannot.

The illusion of separateness is perpetuated through our interpretations of the seen.

We observe Reality manifesting in what appear to be separate, discrete parts — without recognizing the inherent inseparability and interdependence of everything appearing before us.

When we focus, instead, on… the connective tissue of Reality, the invisible Source from which, and the Background against which everything shows up, the illusion of separateness is
naturally and inevitably dispelled — even as the appearance of duality remains.

The Daily Guru

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Live your life in happiness,
even though those around you
lead lives which are unhealthy,
and wish to spread their illness to you.
Be Happiness itself.

Suffering arises
when we long for
our experience to be
something other than
what it is.

Satisfaction arises
when we savour
the richness of
our experience
as it is.

Full acceptance
of whatever is arising
in this moment
is pure and absolute
freedom.

Do not be deceived by the illusion of apparent separateness.

Nothing — including you — exists in isolation,

separate from the fullness of Reality.

When you trust this continuity,

fear, anxiety and loneliness naturally and inevitably

begin to subside.

Nothing can remove you from the present moment,
or from the reality of who and what
you really are.

Find the clear and constant Awareness
which remains the unsullied and spacious Background
of Life’s ever-changing circumstance,
and all restlessness will subside.

Trusting Life (God)

is the first step toward recognizing

your innate Wholeness,

completeness and perfection.