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Let’s talk about the world this week.
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Time Magazine a while back, published a cover story on Global Warming headlined: Be worried. Be VERY worried. In that story, this bastion of news magazine conservatism announced that the problem was 33% worse than anyone has so far estimated.
Former Vice President Al Gore warned that the global warming problem is the biggest crisis facing humanity today. What we are going to do about it is no longer a political problem, he says, it i...
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There is a key to happiness and love that very few people have embraced—and that many have never even heard about. Communion with God gives us that key, and here it is: Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without having what you thought you needed to have in order to be happy, and you will be.
That is one of the most important things you could ever come to understand. Allow me, therefore, to repeat it. Happiness is a decision. Your experie...
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Many humans have been told that What God Wants is for sexual union to be experienced only with one’s spouse for the purposes of procreation and the expression of love.
One result of this teaching: Millions of people believe that sex may absolutely never be experienced in any way that deliberately prevents conception, and that while sex is wonderful, to experience sex simply for pleasure with no possibility of procreation is against the will of God and, therefore, “unnatural,...
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When I was in the midst of the worst period of my life, I asked myself over and over again, “Why is this happening to me?” Â
I did not understand then what I understand now. My awareness had not expanded. I was feeling frustrated. I was feeling angry. I was feeling betrayed by life itself. Fortunately, I listened to these feelings. I did not ignore them. Feelings are the language of the soul. They tell us what the soul wants us to look at now. They lead us to great...
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Last week I made a statement here that survival is the instinct that drives the engine of the human experience. I said I would continue that discussion this week. I want to say now that this instinct is not our basic instinct, it is simply the instinct that drives the engine of the human experience for most of us.
A few years ago a handful of extraordinary men revealed to us, once again, what our basic instinct is. And it is not “survival.”
They knew going in that theirs was ...
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We began a discussion here about what I’ve called The Fractured Self. We looked at how we sometimes split ourselves into two or three different people, just to please the world, just to “get along,” and sometimes, to be truthful, just to get something that we want, and so, to please ourselves.
Then we talked about what it would take to put our Fractured Selves back together again. And the first thing we began focusing on was...honesty.
One thing I’ve discovered in my life is th...
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We spoke in this space last week about “unfracturing the Self.” In that entry I made the statement that life is meant to be happy, and there really should be no reason for it to be otherwise.
I added that certainly, there is no reason for life to be an experience of ongoing unhappiness. But when we are living as fractured people, trying to serve two masters and three agendas and four different thoughts that four different people have about who they think we are supposed to be,...
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It seems to me that life continues to be an unfolding mystery for nearly everyone. There have been, and are now, true Masters holding all the answers, knowing every solution, and living life in ongoing peace and harmony (no matter what was or is happening). So we know that reaching such a level of personal and spiritual development is possible. Indeed, we have been promised this by every great religion. Still, I have seen very few people achieve it “in a flash.”
My observat...
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In Friendship with God I asked a very direct question --- and received a very direct answer. I would like to share with you that exchange...
Can’t You say something about gays? I have been asked over and over again, at lectures and appearances and retreats all over the world: won’t You say something to end once and for all the violence and cruelty and discrimination against gays? So much of it is done in Your name. So much of it is said to be justified by Your teaching, and ...
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For many weeks we have been speaking here about The Holy Experience. I want to invite you to avoid developing preconceived notions about what that Experience is all about, or what it is supposed to “look like.”
It may not be about feeling “filled with the light” or “warm all over” or “One With The Universe.” It could be about that, but it also may not be.
It may not be about only speaking softly and always moving slowly and forevermore walking around with an angelic exp...
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