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I like what you all have said about walking the walk. I can compare to my experience in AA and in order to be successful, sobriety had to be number one, above EVERYTHING else. I think this is what has been written about, that the spiritual life has to be the top priority. I very much like the exampl...

W4---Thank you so much for sharing your own experience on surrender. When I read what you write, it feels it is coming from your heart of truth and it speaks to me. I think your use of the story of Jesus calming the waters, applied to the inner life where the stormy waters of the ego can rage is ins...

I just picked up a book and read this and it fit so well today, so I thought I'd post it. The five colors blind our eyes. The five notes deafen our ears. The five flavors dull our taste. Racing, chasing, hunting, drives people crazy. Trying to get rich ties people in knots. So the wise soul watches ...

My first experience with true surrender was when I 'gave up' trying to fight my addiction to alcohol and drugs and that is when I started allowing some light into my life. I think I've always known God is the one I'm giving up to, but even in AA, I had a sponsor, much like a teacher that helped guid...

I hate to keep quoting Simone Weil, but I studied her a lot in the last few years, she was my teacher's dead guru. I think she had the same ideas about faith as all of you are expressing. I like the way you said it Anna, that surrrender does not mean blind faith, that we do not become stupid to have...

I like what has been written here about faith. Simone Weil says much the same thing as Speculum quoted: "Certainties of this kind are experimental. But if we do not believe in them before experiencing them, if at least we do not behave as though we believed in them, we shall never have the expe...

We are sort of like my dog. He looks at the finger that is pointing rather than looking to where it is pointing.

I find the story of how Christianity started very interesting too, and I thank you for suggesting this book. The Biblical professor I had was very biased against the group called the gnostics. What I have found interesting is that new research has lead to the belief for many that Jesus belonged to a...

but God as (and is) the great mover and power of the universe, not an isolated, individual being, as I see it. God is always there, always available, and close within.[/i I like the way you said this. It makes me think of Aristotle and his notion of the unmoved mover. The ultimate mover. I also hav...

This is a fabulous story, and thank you for sharing it. I can connect with every step. This is where I'm at: The grain thought about it. It was all very frightening. And so unfair! Here was a beautiful promise – with a price attached: to be that, you must no longer be this. I'm not sure either that ...

This has been a very interesting experience for me, my involvement lately with this forum. When you write Anna, it is as if you know exactly what I need to hear, and this entry spoke volumes for me. I was recently booted out of the nest of my Teacher and I have spent way too much time examining whet...

The Bible states: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Think this is making the same kind of statement?

Is this why I recently picked up a book from 10 years ago, that I previously thought was very uninspired and this time I found profound messages in it?

I found your explanation of alzheimers very interesting. Since I work in the health care field, this is something that has always bothered me, why people end up without any ability to think or remember. I think the idea of checking out makes a lot of sense and I know a family member that fits this d...

Anna---I identify with your post. I have been in a similar state lately and I have decided that either I'm in the early stages of Alzheimers, or this is just part of the path. A quotes that fits with your feeling on 'boring and unknowing' BEING DIFFERENT How much difference between yes and no? What ...

Christine, When my daughter was four or five she did something similar to your children. She was talking in her sleep one night and crying out. I came to her and said, Mattie it's mom, I'm right here. She said, No! I want my real mom. I was befuddled by this. I told her the next day what she had sai...