Peace comes from true knowledge,
but true knowledge is not learned
or gained.
True knowledge is
within the peace of your Heart
now.
When panic strikes
go to the Heart for guidance.
Trust implicitly
the guidance of the Heart.
Do not think about its guidance.
Accept it.
Do not worry about what will come next.
Trust the guidance of the Heart
is always available.
This is the way to peace
in every moment
of now.
Love is formless.
A joy that springs forth from form
is mistaken identification.
It is mistaken identification
with the body
as who you are
and how you live.
When the mistake arises,
pause.
Let go of the mind’s thoughts about form,
and investigate the true source of joy.
Discover that joy is formless,
and its only true source is formless love.
Let go of idea-attachment to objects
and revel in true joy always.
The spiritual path
is a path of knowing
one step at a time
as knowing is revealed.
Therefore the spiritual path
is also a path of not-knowing.
One who knows
with the proud, proud mind
is not open to revealing.
Revealed-knowing
without mind-knowing
is the unfolding of the spiritual path.
Resistance is uncomfortable,
so you find yourself willing
to step into an activity or thought
that will minimize resistance.
Minimizing resistance
is suppressing it.
No one heals through
suppressing resistance.
Be willing to rest
and allow resistance,
no matter how difficult
it seems to be.
Allowing resistance
until it dies
is healing.
God cannot be described.
God can be known,
but it cannot be put into words.
It is time now to go beyond words,
to forget words altogether.
Although words may be used
to trigger a glimpse, a memory
or a realization of truth,
it is not the words that teach.
It is experience that teaches,
and it teaches only that
which you already know.
What it teaches is your home,
your reality and
what you are.
You may not know how to discover your false identity, which hides the truth because the false identity has long since been believed and therefore ignored, not looked at and questioned. Through this process, the false identity has become invisible to you, and one may not know how to find and look at that which is invisible.
Nothing real has a shadow, because it is too clear. But false identity is not real. Therefore, although it may be invisible it has a shadow, a shadow that casts many shadows. Therefore, if you look for its shadow you will find that which you did not see.
The primary shadow reflecting from the belief in a false identity is the thought “I”. It may be followed by “I like this” or “I don’t like that,” but the thought of an I that is distinct and with preferences is the shadow that reflects from the belief in a false identity.
If you are too accustomed to the false, the primary shadow may be accepted as normal, and through normalcy it may also be invisible to you.
If this is the case, look for the shadows that are cast off of the shadow. These shadows are annoyance, frustration, anger, attack and other forms of upset.
When you are upset, ask why you are upset. You will notice right away that you have found the “I” that is distinct and has preferences.
Now look at that I, the shadow of nothing real, and ask from which it comes. It will disappear into a thought … just a thought or an idea. And in this you have found false identity. It is thinking … changeable, non-dependable, unreal thought.
But what are you? Are you thought or are you before thought and beyond it?
By looking at false identity, it must die, because it is not life and you are.
The awakened mind
has no will of its own.
Will … I want … I desire
is the domain of the ego.
The awakened mind is.
It is in love.
It is in service.
It is in joy.
But to say it has a will
is an error.
The unawakened mind wants.
The bridge-mind,
which is the desire for awakening,
wants only one thing.
There is nothing to say
when one is awakened to truth.
There is no where to go
and nothing to do.
Yet one who is awakened
may be moved by you
to say and go and do.
Your desire to awaken
will move the awakened soul,
so what you see in him
is you, truly.
Surrender to the inner light
takes away all attachment to ideas,
for ideas are outer
and surrender is devotion to inner.
Surrender to the inner light
takes away all pain and suffering,
for pain and suffering are outer.
Pain and suffering is focus on outer ideas,
ideas of form and ideas of body.
Surrender is devotion to the inner light.
When one is consumed by the inner,
the outer disappears.
Ideas are distraction from the inner light.
When one is distracted,
return yourself to devotion.
This is true practice.
Ideas are an obstacle
when ideas are a part
of self-identity.
No idea is a part of your truth.
Your truth is beyond all ideas.
Ideas are used to guide you in this world,
but an idea is best used to guide
when you listen, act
and then let go.
An idea held to
beyond its moment of usefulness
is an idea that forms self-identity.
This idea is an obstacle.
See the obstacle and let it go.
Stay within the flow of ideas
without clinging to any of them.