sacred-teachings

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the People that is the defining mythology of a new kind of civilization.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

It is the cry of the separate self, __hat about me?_ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn__ matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.

Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Christ__he modern equivalent of which is Superman!

I have spent much of my adult life trying to figure out how to experience holiness, and now I know that the struggle to figure things out is antithetical to the experience. You simply relax into holiness the way you would a warm bath.

Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real.

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.