Relaxing into love in everyday life
https://youtu.be/XM2cMQXnto8 An awareness of clear direction can substitute for ego's urgency and insistence. Think of motivation as a movement caused by thoughts that match the fear you seem to project outside of you. The fear seems to take the shape of all of these separate forms and figures that can be in peace for a … Continue reading Neither predator nor prey
https://youtu.be/t5ZU5X4J5fA You always have the opportunity to look through a projected special victimhood or special aggressorship to what everyone is together now. What is real within everyone and everything is connected, and this is the reality. The ego would tell you that the drama playing out on the surface is the reality, and then it … Continue reading Blessing is in everyone
https://youtu.be/li-IveyPnNk The ego doesn't know how to make sense of any daily happenings. Pay careful attention to any reactivity to daily happenings, and there's your evidence. If ego knew how to guide you smoothly, there wouldn't be a need for any reaction. The dependence here is switching. Ego says it knows, and now you remember … Continue reading Being saved from what you have made
https://youtu.be/UGp4SODEJ7A I give my view of everyone I call else to God to guide today. This is a way of approaching everyone in your day today. If you need a substitution, you can say this:I give my view of everyone I call else to what is real and present to guide today. Either way, it's … Continue reading Seeing the problem clearly
https://youtu.be/jDijMFpqss8 You can say goodbye to the idealized versions of anyone you think you know, and this is no loss. Now, here, is where you can allow everyone to be the same, and now you can allow everything to spring from this sameness. Here, all are alike. There is nothing to interfere with the peace … Continue reading Arising for you
https://youtu.be/1k3fO03eiDk The ego's scale of highs and lows seems to be internal, but it is really fear projected outward. Go further in, and you find what is truly here to be relied upon. What is here to be relied upon is utterly stable. It cannot move about underneath you. It is you. Resting upon what … Continue reading You can observe
https://youtu.be/I7Spqr4Ldik If you believe the small self is real, then you believe that there are many things that can intrude upon it, and you have to protect it from intrusions. You believe that each of these things that can intrude upon the small self are real, and therefore very difficult to change. You can see, then, … Continue reading A deep pool of stillness
https://youtu.be/easQd_4pqmk You do not have to force your behavior out of alignment with a thought while it still seems protective. All things come in good time. You do not have to act in alignment with a role the ego has invented, no matter how good or helpful the role seems. It is more important to … Continue reading Everything you need
https://youtu.be/nDyO7oER7hw It may not occur to you to seek stimulus for a very long time. Think of what you call your life as reaching a peak of a pretty solid wall of repetitive stimulus-seeking. Each tiny action was connected to an idea of separate self, and the action seemed to define this self. It didn't … Continue reading Full responsibility
https://youtu.be/pO0ck9UTiG4 What you are calls to the deepest part of them. We can go further and say that what you are is the deepest part of them. Here there is no conflict, no division, no problem. And when we say them, we mean everyone and everything. So there is always this call for you to … Continue reading By design
Love's Beginning 