Meditations on Eckhart Tolle

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Freedom from time

Monday with Eckhart Tolle: "All suffering is ego-created and due to resistance. All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience … [Read More...]

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The Philospher’s Stone has been found

Monday with Eckhart Tolle: "Sustained conscious attention severs the link between the pain-body and your thought process, and brings about the process of transmutation. It is as if the pain becomes fuel … [Read More...]

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The Play is Prayer

Sunday with Eckhart Tolle: "Any external conditions that are being resisted tend to shift or dissolve quickly through surrender. It is a powerful transformer of situations and people. If conditions do … [Read More...]

Meditations on Course in Miracles

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I see only the past. Lesson #7

I look forward to these meditation on the lessons in Course in Miracles each day. Here's today meditation: "I see only the past."  "This idea is … [Read from beginning below..]

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Let the balloon go! Lesson # 6

"I am upset because I see something that is not there." This is a very useful APP that you can download into your Smart Mind. When you are upset ("There … [Read from beginning below..]

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This is a “frictionless app.” Lessons #5

"I am never upset for the reason I think."   Okay, as we learned and practiced from the previous lessons, form does not r have any meaning in itself. … [Read from beginning below..]

Masks of God

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The Snake Did It!

Passages from The Power of Myth, a PBS interview of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers. MOYERS: (discussing the snake in mythology and the Bible). "Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that … [Read More...]

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Follow your bliss

Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth: MOYERS: What happens when you follow your bliss? CAMPBELL: You come to bliss. In the Middle Ages, a favorite image that occurs in many, many contexts is the … [Read More...]

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What do ritual sacrifices point to?

From Joseph Campbell's interview with Bill Moyers on PBS:  "The nature of life itself has to be realize in the acts of life. In the hunting cultures, when a sacrifice is made, it is, as it were, a … [Read More...]

Wisdom of Satchidananda

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Be a well charged batter

“All movements—physical and mental—are caused by prana, the vital energy. The entire cosmos is filled with prana. During meditation a kind of static energy is built up because you’re keeping your … [Read More...]

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A Little Surge will do it

Question: When we feel an extra surge of love from within, what can we do to keep that love flowing instead of being blocked up inside or focused all on one person? Sri Gurudev: When you feel that extra … [Read More...]

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Rest at the Top

Wherever you are, whatever you do, have discipline in your life. Discipline your mind, discipline your senses, discipline your body. When we want a big reward, we have to pay a big price. Nothing comes … [Read More...]

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It Is Something Super

You should have a close personal relationship with God. That's why sometimes it's easier to have a personal representation of God than an abstract one. You can communicate better, you can look at the face, … [Read More...]

Jesus and Buddha

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The Parallel Sayings of Jesus and Buddha

Joseph Campbell in his interview with Bill Moyers (PBS) talked about the parallel paths of Jesus and Buddha as archetypal savior figures.  Campbell: The Buddha follows a path very much like that … [Read More...]

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On Compassion

Jesus: Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6.31 Buddha: Consider others as yourself. Dhammapada 10.1 … [Read More...]

Threads by Ed Conley

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The One True Compass

When we are around master meditation teachers, and especially realized beings, we feel a resonance, for want of a better word. Something feels true. We don't know what, but it feels real. I've had the … [Read More...]