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  • For today’ radio program:

    A common cause of spiritual discouragement is the devotee’s expectation
    that God’s response will come in a great blaze of awe-inspiring inner
    illminations.  This erroneous notion dulls the devotee’s perception of
    the subtle Divine responses that are present from the very beginning of
    one’s meditative practices.  God responds to the devotee’s every
    effort, every devotional call.  Even as a novice, you will realize this
    in your own seeking if you learn to recognze Him as the quiet, inner
    peace that steals over your consciousness.  This peace is the first
    proof of God’s presence within.  You will know it is He who has guided
    and inspired you to some right decision in your life.  You will feel
    His strength empowering you to overcome bad habits and nurture
    spiritual qualities.  You will know Him as the ever-increasing joy and
    love that surges deep within, overflowing into your everyday life and
    relationships.

    Therefore,
    God is present right on the throne of peace within you.  Find Him there
    first and you will find Him in all the noble pursuits of life, in true
    friends, in the beauty of nature, in good books, in good thoughts, in
    noble aspirations…When you know God as peace within, then you will
    realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things
    without.

    –Paramahansa Yogananda, Where There Is Light at 170-171


  • We should study; Judaism has always insisted that knowledge has the power not only to make people smart but to make them good…

    - Rabbi Harold Kushner


    Sakka asked: “What is the cause of self-interest?”


    The Buddha answered: “It is perception of the world as one’s object.”


    “How does one overcome this perception of the world as apart from oneself?”


    “By acting for the increase of goodness and happiness. It is in this way that the world ceases to be one’s object.”

    -Digha Nikaya


  • Brahman is indivisible and pure;

    Realize Brahman and go beyond all change.

    He is immanent and transcendant.

    Realizing him, sages attain freedom

    And declare there are no separate minds.

    They have but realized what they always are.

    -Amritabindu Upanishad


  • From his divine power comes forth all this

    Magical show of name and form, of you

    And me, which casts the spell of pain and pleasure.

    Only when we pierce through this magic veil

    Do we see the One who appears as many.

    -Shvetashvatara Upanishad


  • God is Consciousness that pervades the entire universe of the living and the non-living.

    -Ramakrishna

  • Whether a man really loves God can be determined by the love he bears toward his fellow men.

    - Levi Yitzhok, quoted in Buber, “Tales of the Hasidim”

  • Acceptance

    This passage shows the power of judgment–it voids acceptance and peace:

    Erroneous views keep us in defilement
    While right views remove us from it,
    But when we are in a position to discard both of them
    We are then absolutely pure.

    -The Sutra of Hui Neng

    Namaste`
    Mara

  • You are invited to be the cause of your experience.

    —God

    in Neale Donald Walsh’s Conversations with God Book 1

    This Sunday’s radio program will be later at 6:00 P.M.  We’ll talk about “The Secret,”  “The Law of Attraction”. . . manifesting Your life.  Stop by to listen or call in* and comment.  I’ll be looking forward to feeling your energy—be there.

    *Calling in is free.


  • O God, it would be impossible for me to distance myself from you; it
    would be impossible for you to distance yourself from me. In the
    certainty of our relationship, proximity and distance are the same.

    -Hallaj, “Tawasin”

  • It is not a virtue to refrain from hurting others, but it is a virtue to
    bear a hurt patiently.

    - Solomon
    Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim