Writings
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Q: There have been so many things happening to me over the last few months and it’s been overwhelming at times… how do I deal with it, how do I make sense of it, how do I hold together in the face of this ongoing series of things that have been happening? Why do these things…
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Loving is an intentional act. Love does not enter our world by accident. If like-dislike is ‘that’s all!’ then love is impossible for us. So, how may we practise loving? This is a practical matter, and may therefore be practically addressed. This is part of one of the musician’s three disciplines – ‘the discipline of…
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The Great Freedom is when who-we-are, our essential spark, knows itself directly and apart from what-we-are: the animal we inhabit, the experiences that shaped our opinions and actions, and the repercussions that accumulate from both necessary and unnecessary behaviour. In some schools this is expressed as “having an I”. This is an unfortunate expression, as…
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Know that if you do not discharge your work in life, part of the planet will die.Know this for a certainty. If we fail to honourably discharge what it is given to us in this life to meet, however modest that seemed to be, part of the world will die. So, something dies because we…
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Attention is a property of the will. What is will? Will doesn’t exist but acts on and through what does exist. Perhaps this is more easily understood as an urge, or impulse. So, we experience an urge to live and do through the body, an urge to be through the feelings, and an urge to…
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When we go to a show, as members of the audience, we assume that the performers on stage are qualified to perform. We assume that the musicians are sufficiently trained, and have enough experience and skill, to make the performance happen. If we reverse the position, from the performer’s viewpoint – is the audience qualified…
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God is as close to us as we are to ourselves.The spark within us is a Divine Spark.This Divine Spark is what is highest is us.What is highest in us is not far from what is highest in us all.What is highest in us all is not far from what is Highest. A simple word…
