The universe holds its breath as we choose, instant by instant, which pathway to follow; for the universe, the very essence of life itself, is highly conscious.
Every act, thought, and choice adds to a permanent mosaic; our decisions ripple through the universe of consciousness to affect the lives of all.
…Every act or decision you make that supports life supports all of life, including your own.
Power vs Force card deck
Full text, Power vs Force, Ch. 9, Power Patterns in Human Attitudes
Everything we do and say, every movement we make, is energized by the lovingness that we have owned within ourselves. Whether speaking to a large audience or petting the dog, the energy of love is felt to be pouring out. We want to share what we hold in the heart as an experiential knowingness, and we hold it in the heart for everyone and everything, that they would be feeling it, too. We pray for that inner experience of infinite love for everyone around us, including the animals. Our life is a blessing to everything around us. We acknowledge to others and to our animals the gift that they are to us.
Daily Reflections, Pg. 26
When the challenges come up, that’s when you need the tools. So, spiritual work then, out of love and compassion for yourself, and out of love for God, devotion to God, you develop these strengths, these capacities, this discernment. And, eventually, it’s like a knife, you can cut through anything. You can lose anything and everything, disconnect: parents, grandparents, country, lovers, wives, children, dogs, cats, houses, titles, anything! Whoosh! In an instant, it’s gone. So, that laser-like one-pointedness of mind and the willingness to cut through anything, no matter what it is, is what’s going to be needed at a later date. So, we perfect it every day. We perfect that capacity. So, that’s a form of love. All of spiritual work is a form of love. We surrender it all as a form of devotion. “Out of my love for Thee, O Lord, I let go my attachment to so-and-so. I surrender it to Thee.” The willingness to let go of anything and everything to God. In the end, you’re asked to let go all of it, even physicality. Yeah, even physicality.
And of course, the ultimate one, which we will talk about at the end of the lectures, is the willingness to give up what you think is the source of life itself. You’re asked to give up life for God. And you see that the ego is coming to its end, but you don’t know it’s just the ego; you think it’s you. And your willingness to surrender life itself as you understand it, to God, is going to require all the strength that you’ve learned. So, devotion, then, is a one-pointed, um, willingness, and it becomes tested all the time. The expression of love as devotion, then, becomes the core of many forms of devotion, whether Christianity or Zen Meditation….
…People say, “How do I know I’m going to be enlightened someday or something?” Well, I tell them, “If you weren’t destined to be enlightened, you wouldn’t be in this lecture.” Nobody who’s not destined to be enlightened would even be here. Who would be at a class on how to drive a speedboat? Only people who are going to get a speedboat; I mean, nobody else is going to be there. By definition, the people who are interested in enlightenment are the people who are going to become enlightened. I mean, that’s how you get there, isn’t it?
Karma and Devotion: The Sacred Path to God Through the Heart: Ch. 1, pgs. 22-23
The spiritual practice of seeking Enlightenment via nonduality is the consequence of intention and commitment. Its actual practice is not so much a matter of ‘doing’ but a way of ‘being’ or aligning with the subjective awareness of life. It is therefore like a posture as represented, for example, by the classic mudra (sacred hand position). Attention is aligned with the field/context rather than the customary focus on content and details. Intuition is valuable and investigative rather than being dismissed as illogical. Also, spiritual work is more like noticing and becoming aware rather than ‘doingness’ per se. Attitudes that may just seem merely ‘nice’ to ordinary mind become very powerful tools when aligned with spiritual intention and commitment. For instance, to strictly live by the dictum of ‘good will to all life’ is transformative when energized by the Spiritual Will.
The decisions to ‘be kind to all of life’ or to respect the sacredness of all that exists are powerful attitudes in spiritual evolution, along with the virtues of compassion, the willingness to forgive, and seeking to understand rather than to judge. By constant surrendering, perceptions dissolve into discernment of essence.
Discovery of The Presence of God: Ch. 3, Pg. 62, Veritas edition
To even be on the spiritual pathway is already the greatest karma there is. That is the greatest gift. The rest is automatic, because once you get bit by the bug, you don’t have much choice about it. Once you get bit by the spiritual bug, the way home is certain. You may get lost here and there for a few lifetimes, wandering around. That’s irrelevant because the pathway is going to pull you. We’ve said you are not propelled by your past; you’re attracted by your future. You set your future by your choice and design and by your spiritual agreement. What happens then, and of course in quantum mechanics, there is no past, present, or future. There is no such thing as a sequence of past, present, and future in the infinite quantum potentiality. The future precedes the present. Do you understand what I’m saying? Because you’ve already chosen the future and activated it in the now, the future is what’s activating you now. You understand? Okay. Everyone here is being pulled by the infinite potentiality that you have already chosen and committed to, or you wouldn’t be here. You’d be at the ballgame. So, everyone should relax, that the way is certain. Enlightenment is certain for everybody here, or you wouldn’t be here. The future, then, is what is activating you in the present, yeah. Does that make sense now? Because of
what you’ve already chosen, you’ve already chosen that out of the quantum potentiality. You have an infinite number of choices, but you’ve chosen that. That is now what is attracting you, like a magnet to the future, dragging you through all that you have to go through—giving up chocolate and everything. I gave up chocolate for God. That’s how I got this halo.
The Final Doorway to Enlightenment: Prayer, Transcendence, and Realization of the Self, pg. 132-133 ( this book is the compilation of the November and December 2002 lectures)
