Teachers: Physical, and Non-Physical -- It's Gotta Work In Practical Life!
I've seen many, many people who could do marvelous feats of healing, teaching, psychic predicting, and even wild phenomenal mystical, I've seen many, many people who could do marvelous feats of healing, teaching, psychic predicting, and even wild phenomenal mystical, magical feats I can't do .... but too often their own lives, and the lives of their students don't work very well.
Lest We Forget..
Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list and rank what they considered as the Seven Wonders. Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes:
1. Egypt's Great Pyramids
2. The Taj Mahal in India
3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
4. The Panama Canal
5. The Empire State Building
6. St. Peter's Basilica
7. China's Great Wall
False Personas, Masks, and Manufactured Selves
Sometimes after really "getting" Divine Openings, people tell me they hardly recognize themselves, that they have to take some time to get to know and live into the new person they now find that they are. So much of who they thought they were was not real - it was learned, conditioned, constructed, layered on top of their true self, or manufactured.
If ones chooses to really let go, to feel their feelings and stick to Divine Openings, all falsity can fall away, and it's very liberating.
The Benefit of BAD
"All that happens to you in life is simply God's wheel steering you home." -Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Excuse Me, Do You Know Where Grace Lives?
You know how when you've moved to a new house, sometimes you might accidentally "go on autopilot" and start to take the old route back to the old home at first, out of habit. Once you get used to your new address it becomes your new habit.
Meditation on Steroids
Are you a meditator? Have you tried it and it seemed too hard or you couldn't quiet your mind? Are you not sure what to do?
Music that Unites
WARNING for the squeamish: at approximately 9 min and 38 seconds into the video you will see an ancient tribal ritual with some male nudity that could be uncomfortable to view, JUST SLIDE THE SCROLL BAR AHEAD to approximately 10:00 minutes to skip this small part.
Teachers: Physical, and Non-Physical -- It's Gotta Work In Practical Life!
Are You Speakin' Or Leakin'?
How Much Of Your Power Do You Want To Reclaim?
Some inspired questions were asked by this most recent group at the 5 Day Silent Intensive Retreat (they write me notes while they're in silence), which gave me the wonderful opportunity to bring in some inspired answers from The Presence.
Here's one of the most powerful questions, and the answer that came:
