to love is to witness
Request: One of the flying fish from this morning's contemplation.
Spirituality
inner knowing you have nothing to prove and your worth is unmistakable
Priority request: With my current conditions in this life I have struggled mightily with feeling unworthy. This came to me this morning and it felt like a big burden was lifted and I cried with relief.
magnitude: willingness to die for something
Priority request: Doc talked about how the willingness to lay one's life down for God was a prerequisite for enlightenment. He also praised the kamikaze pilots in WW2 for their willingness to sacrifice their lives for God and country... [W]e can also see people will die for negativity.
T/F: if we have welcomed and followed the Doc teachers...
… it means we are close to enlightenment.
"all is well"
request: for challenging experiences and situations.
statement: all suffering is due to attachment
Compared with: all suffering is due to **resistance**.
"There is no such thing as a person"
Request attributes the quote to Nisargadatta Maharaj.
the meaning of life is spiritual work
Part of the meaning of life series...
statement: one cannot help but be what one is
Priority request: In one of Doc's lectures he talks about if one could do better one would.
AwakenTheWorldFilm (YouTube channel)
Request: It seems like an incredibly aware/enlightened YouTube channel that creates films on awakening. They have 647k subscribers at the time of writing.
Betty Eadie
Request: Author mentioned in Fran Grace’s book The Power of Love. Has written various spiritual books & accounts an NDE.
statement: karma is equivalent to ignorance
Request: By not seeing the world as it truly is and creating vulnerabilities within ourselves, we suffer from the wounds and distortions that separate us from the divine... The mind, imprisoned by its conditioning, creates according to cultural narratives.
taking control of your destiny
Is it an ego illusion, or is it actually constructive?
non-pointedness of mind
Request: In “Discovery” in Ch. 7, “The Razor's Edge," there is a section called “one-pointedness of mind.” In this section he describes “non-pointedness” of mind.
"focusing on form is de-energizing"
Request: Doc, from Realizing the Root of Consciousness: Meditative and Contemplative Techniques Jun 2002 (part 1/3, 1:35:44).