How can you be free? What is freedom anyway?
Freedom to do what? Freedom to do whatever you want to do? Is that it? What do youwant to do? Definition: Total freedom is total absence of fear. Because total freedom is total love, or total extension of yourself in freedom, to include everything else. You see? You cannot be free if you fear, because if you fear you will… more
You will first dream of peace, and then awaken to it.…
The peace of God passeth your understanding only in the past. Yet here it is, and you can understand it now. God loves His Son forever, and His Son returns His Father’s Love forever. The real world is the way that leads you to remembrance of the one thing that is wholly true and wholly yours. For all else you have lent yourself in time, and it will fade. But… more
And one that shall know this vision– with what passion of love shall he not be seized, with what pang of desire, what longing to be molten into one with This!…… This, the Beauty supreme, the absolute, and the primal, fashions Its lovers to Beauty and makes them also worthy of love.
Plotinus, Enneads… more
Behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad.
St. Augustine, Confessions… more
In the exercise of mystical contemplation, leave behind the senses and the operations of the intellect, and all things sensible and intellectual,……. that you may arise by unknowing towards the union with Him who transcends all being and all knowledge.
Dionysius the Areopagite, The Hidden Knowledge of God
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When the soul reaches the perfection of spirit, being completely purified of passion, and commingled with the Holy Spirit….then it becomes all light, all exultation, all heartfelt love, all goodness and lovingkindness.
Macarius, 4th century Coptic Hermit… more
This is a very simple course. Perhaps you do not feel you need a course which, in the end, teaches that only reality is true. But do you believe it? When you perceive the real world, you will recognize that you did not believe it. Yet the swiftness with which your new and only real perception will be translated into knowledge will leave you but an instant to realize that this alone is true. more
Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more. more
Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give you will receive. There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth. more