What Is Your Spiritual Development For?
It is necessary to understand that our spiritual development is tied directly to the evolution of the world. What is happening within you is directly connected to what is happening in the world.
Have You Made Mistakes in Life?
Do not cast away any aspect of yourself or of your life but bring it into meaningful engagement. In this way, nothing is destroyed and everything is re-employed. Instead of bemoaning your losses or condemning yourself for your errors, you use what you have learned to help others and to gain character, depth and capacity. […]
The Three Stages of Knowing
Said very simply, and this is an oversimplification, but there are three stages of knowing. One is recognizing the sign or the impulse. The sign may be on the outside; the impulse may be on the inside. You recognize something that really stands out; it’s not ordinary. It’s not your usual thing to recognize.
What is Sacred?
It is time now to speak of the Sacred—what is truly sacred, what must be revered, what must be recognized—and to see how it is very different from the things that are considered sacred and held to be sacred by many people. For what is sacred cannot be touched. It cannot be named. It cannot […]
Mindfulness: Time is of the Essence
The next is regarding the things that are really important, time is of the essence. It is really important. In fact, the New Message says that time is nothing to God, but everything to you—the time that you have
We Live Life at Two Different Levels
We live life in the world as a worldly person trying to survive here, trying to function here, trying to navigate changing circumstances around us, trying to find happiness or reprieve wherever we can. That’s 99% of our awareness, perhaps. There’s a deeper current of our life—representing who we were before we came into the […]
Follow What You Know You Must Do
Follow those things you already know to do. Listen to your self-talk. Listen to what you say to yourself. “Oh, I know I need to do this. I know I need to do that.” But you’re not doing it. So why would anything new be given to you if you’re not already doing what you […]
Skills to Re-employ the Mind
https://youtu.be/Uozdisz8vNI Marshall Vian Summers speaks about the development of skills that utilize the mind to respond to the world and face conflict, being in the world in the new way. Recorded on March 16th, 2019 in Boulder, Colorado. Transcript: So we’re in the process now of learning skills. And I’m much more interested in this […]
Set Aside the Question: “Who Am I?”
Set aside the question about “Who am I?” Set aside the question of “Why am I in the world?” Those are questions that must be answered by reaching a certain place in life where these things can be experienced more directly. They are not simply an identification or a definition. They’re a moving experience. They’re […]
What Does Religion Really Ask of You?
Religion has become a palliative. It has become a distraction more than an illumination. It has become something that people use to run away from the world to seek comfort and consolation instead of a preparation to engage in the world in a greater and more profound way. You are asked to receive, not to […]
