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March 1st 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Enlightenment and Love

If asked, "Where is Love in the search for and discovery of Enlightenment?" I'd have to reply, at the beginning, at the middle, and at the end. How is it possible to say more than that?

Love is the source, Love is the vehicle. Love is the prime mover and the prime doer. Love is the source of Enlightenment. The expression of Enlightenment is love.

The source of Love and the source of Enlightenment are one and the same.

Andrew Cohen

For Love enters even into that where the Godhead is not manifested in this glorious Light, and where God may be said not to dwell. And entering thereinto, Love begins to manifest to the Soul the Light of the Godhead: and thus is the Darkness broken through, and the Wonders of the new Creation successively manifested...

Jacob Boehme

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 2nd 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Possessing Ourselves

We grow in self-awareness not only by introspection but by tackling the jobs that lie to hand, by measuring our strength and skill against taxing work and difficult people.

In middle and later life after the heat of the struggle to succeed is over and such measure of success as we have attained has lost all its novelty and most of its charm, then especially we are ready to devote energy to the task of gaining deeper self-awareness.

Until we know ourselves, we cannot really possess ourselves. And until we possess ourselves and have the inner peace that comes from self-possession, we shall find it impossible to relate to other people except either by trying to possess and dominate them or by letting them possess or dominate us.

Christopher Bryant

As long as I am this or that or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

Meister Eckhart

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 3rd 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Only Through Experience

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

John Keats

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, letter to her twin daughters

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

Experience is not what happens to a person, it is what a person learns through what happens to him or her.

Source unknown

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 4th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- World Thoughts

'The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by the distorting spectacles of our appetites and revulsions. It is the finite divorced from the Eternal. It is multiplicity in isolation from its non-dual Ground. It is time apprehended as one damned thing after another. It is a system of verbal categories taking the place of the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars which constitute reality. It is a notion labelled 'God'. It is the Universe equated with the words of our utilitarian vocabulary.

Over against 'the world' stands 'the other world' -- the Kingdom of God within.

Aldous Huxley

If we disregard these world thoughts, in a few days or weeks they will die for lack of feeding. Only as we accept them as our thoughts, do we feed them.

Joel S Goldsmith

Good-by, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 5th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Without Proprietary Rights

It was not an accident that seventeen of the thirty-six parables of the Master had to do with property and stewardship.

William James Dawson

The story is told of a farmer who was known for his generous giving, and whose friends could not understand how he could give so much and yet remain so prosperous. One day a friend said: "We can't understand it. You give far more than any of the rest of us, and yet you always seem to have more to give." "That's easy to explain," the farmer said. "I keep shovelling into God's bin, and God keeps shovelling back into mine, and God has the bigger shovel."

Source unknown

People say 'Give it all away?' as if you are mad, as if accumulating wealth and just hanging on to it is normal. You can't take it with you -- you are a long time dead. I know that is seen as eccentric, yet to give is the basis of every religion from Moslem to Christian. I see it as my responsibility to give it away and I am completely serious.

Anita Roddick -- founder of the Body Shop, commenting on her plan to give $150 million to charity.

We are to have what we have as if it were loaned to us, and not given; to be without proprietary rights to body and soul, mind or faculties, worldly goods or honors, friends relations, houses, castles or anything else.

Meister Eckhart

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 6th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Freedom

Freedom is never a gift. It is the "Pearl of Great Price" in anguish won.

Source unknown

On the other side of Freedom terror always lays in wait. Anybody who is seeking for and interested in finding true Freedom may be plagued by fear. Because if you say, "I seek Freedom," it means that you are seeking that which has no limit. Terror may come when looking into the limitlessness of that which has no beginning and no end. To the finite ego that which is infinite has to be terrifying.

When you dare to break down all barriers fear will rush in and try to prevent you from succeeding. When all ideas are being shaken there's a chance you may step beyond them, and the ego has no existence where there is no idea of limitation.

Glimpsing this possibility is for many quite terrifying.

Andrew Cohen

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 7th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Teacher's Function

Always there have appeared individuals bearing the divine message of the presence of God and of the unreality of evil: Buddha of India; Lao-Tze of China; Jesus of Nazareth. These and many others brought the light of Truth to humankind, and always men have interpreted this light as the messenger, failing to see that what they were beholding as a man "out there" was the light of Truth within their own consciousness.

The (spiritual) teacher's function is to unveil the light that already constitutes your innermost being, self, or identity. The function of the teacher and the teaching is to unveil the presence of the Spirit of God that is within you, so that you can eventually live in this conviction, "Thank You, Father, You and I are one."

Joel S Goldsmith

The (spiritual) teacher bestows grace, transmitting the Truth in silence and inspiring a deep commitment to realize the Truth. It is by the grace of a cliff that the river becomes a waterfall. It is by the grace of the water that the basin fills. The teacher is a waterfall, the student is the basin, grace is the flowing of a higher power which opens the way beyond consciousness here and now.

Shantimayi

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 8th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Place Inside

There is a place inside you that you know is free. It’s a little place, very small. You’ve been taught to look for the big so that you miss love. Love is absolutely very small. You won’t have to find that place, search for it; it's in you. Just see that you’ve been avoiding it. You’re avoiding it because you still want life YOUR way.

When you no longer avoid it, you live from what that little being is singing to you. The first thing it says is 'give up, give up your struggle, give up your ideas, your notions and potions. Give them up and I will show you what freedom is.'

The storm is the raging mind attached to thought and feeling, which has built the entire world as you see it: pain, confusion, commerce, sex, drugs, famine, war, the haves and the have nots. To come home, give up trying to have. Live for what you receive from this little place.

Bernie Prior

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 9th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Heaven in Your Heart

Lao Tze taught everyone can find a heaven deep down in his or her heart. To find it, he said, is to find great treasure and power and Joy, to share and delight in the powerful force that makes and rules.

Lao Tze described the way to find this heaven:

Talk little, because much talking wastes your power. Don't be greedy, wanting everything for yourself. Don't be proud, even if you become great. Don't praise yourself, or show off, but do respect yourself. Don't have, or want, many things you don't need. Be fair and friendly with everybody, treating everyone the same. Do things in an orderly way, and with energy. Don't complain or blame. Be brave. Don't try to win out over others, but to win out over yourself. Know others, and know yourself. Do good not just to good people, but to bad people too, and to people who treat you badly. Care about others as much as you care about yourself, treat the "self of all the people" the way you treat your own self.

--from China, Lao Tze, c. 550 BCE

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 10th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Teacher Within

Your Teacher is enthroned within your consciousness. This Teacher, you can meet face to face within your own being.

Your Teacher -- the Teacher within you -- will never leave you nor forsake you; Your Teacher will never abandon you nor be absent from you -- not even in the valley of the shadow of death, not even if you make your bed in hell, not even if you are in the depths of sin.

Your Teacher will never leave you, and you are at liberty any second to turn within, talk to your Teacher as if your Teacher were sitting in front of you and eventually, you will learn to receive answers from your Teacher.

... behold the Teacher within and thus realize, that what appeared as a teacher outside, was actually our own consciousness appearing.

Joel S Goldsmith

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 11th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Surrender Is Liberation

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our own hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Nicholas Evans

The path of Enlightenment is not for everybody, because true Enlightenment demands total surrender. For many the idea of surrender is distasteful. They fear that surrender means being a slave, without realizing that it was because they felt enslaved in the first place that they sought Liberation. The mind finds the concept of surrender unacceptable because it is so absolute, so black and white and so uncompromising.

Surrender only means ceasing to submit to that which is non-Self or other than Self. Surrender only means ceasing to submit to that which is unreal, untrue, false and illusory Sooner or later it will become obvious that there is simply no choice and no other way for anyone who wants to be Free. In the end all spiritual practice points finally to surrender alone.

Andrew Cohen

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 12th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Golden Rule

Someone asked the Mulla what he thought of Confucius's rule: "You should want for others what you want for yourself."

The Mulla replied, "It's astonishing! Why, what one wants for oneself is usually in the long run as bad as what one wants for the enemy!

"What one should want for others is not what one wants for oneself but what one ought to have and what others ought to have. But no one can know what this is until he or she finds inner Truth."

--from Persia (Iran), Sufi followers of Mohammed, probably before 1250 CE

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 13th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Ancient Path

There are many ways to search but the object of the search is always the same. Don't you see that the roads to Mecca are all different? ... The roads are different, the goal one ... When people come there, all quarrels or differences or disputes that happen along the road are resolved ... Those who shouted at each other along the road 'you are wrong' or 'you are an infidel' forget their differences when they come there, because there, all hearts are in unison.

Rumi

The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell

Long and narrow is the ancient Path, -- I have touched it, I have found it -- the path by which the wise, knowers of the Eternal, attaining to salvation, depart hence to the high world of Paradise.

Brhadaranyaka Upanishad

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 14th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Greatest Service

The highest service may be prepared for and done in the humblest surroundings. In silence, in waiting, in obscure, unnoticed offices, in years of uneventful, unrecorded duties, the Son of God grew and waxed strong.

Inscription in the Chapel of Stanford University

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Ramana Maharshi

God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.

Phillips Brooks

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 15th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Mistaken Identity

Ignorance is the most potent factor in setting limitations to the majority of humankind; and so the great majority of people continue to live their little, dwarfed, and stunted lives simply by virtue of the fact that they do not realize the larger life to which they are heirs. They have never as yet come into a knowledge of the identity of their true Selves.

Humankind has not yet realized that the real Self is one with the life of God. Through its ignorance, it has never yet (except in the case of a few individuals) opened itself to the divine inflow, and so has never made itself a channel through which the infinite powers and forces can manifest.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Humanity is suffering from a case of mistaken identity, identifying itself as a thought or a feeling and not the consciousness of Being itself. For the individual to return to the beauty of the true Self, consciousness must live only out of the truth of Love in every moment and not from the past or the future. Only in this place can consciousness be in full illumination of what is real, now.

Bernie Prior

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 16th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Surrender and Independence

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

William James

Ultimately true surrender and real independence are the same thing. You have to experience profound surrender in order to realize the dynamic independence that is the result of such surrender. To win this independence you have to be willing to sacrifice everything you have been clinging to, including every single idea you have about yourself.

You may find that to be quite an excruciating experience. But if you can get through it you will discover a new and different personality manifesting that is free from all the fetters of fixed ideas. True independence comes from the confidence in that discovery In that discovery there is profound self-reliance.

Andrew Cohen

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 17th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Eye That Sees Only Itself

This was the great reality. The relative mind cannot hold, grasp, convey, see, or even believe, that which has revealed itself. This identity can never be communicated because it is the one existent that is Pure Subjectivity, and can never be objectified.

This is the Eye seeing itself, and wherever it looks it sees nothing but itself.

The Eye -- which is not of the mind -- alone sees and knows itself as all that exists; it is Oneness, and it is itself all that remains when there is no (egoic) self.

The gap between subject and object had been irrevocably closed. Beyond the relational there is only the Eye seeing itself, which is not static; rather, rather it sees itself as so continuously new, that the now-moment is never the same. Since the movement into the new is of its essence, the journey moves on, endlessly onward into the Unknown.

Bernadette Roberts

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 18th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Realized Original Nature

I had the overwhelming realization that all things are not apart from inherent nature. Who would have expected that inherent nature is originally intrinsically pure? Who would have expected that inherent nature is originally unborn and undying?

Who would have expected that inherent nature is originally complete in itself? Who would have expected that inherent nature is originally immovable? Who would have expected that inherent nature can produce myriad things?

Knowing I had realized original nature, the Grand Master said to me, "If one does not discern the original mind, it is of no benefit to study the teaching. If you discern your own original mind and see your own original essential nature, you are what they call a great being, a teacher of humans and angels, a buddha."

Hui-Neng -- 638-713, China

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 19th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Revealing the Real

This, which rests eternally within the self should be known, and beyond this not anything has to be known.

Svetaswatara Upanishad

We must constantly discern the Real and Eternal from the temporal and unreal. We must learn to perceive the Immortal Perfect in the finite imperfect appearance. We must contemplate these Eternal Realities as Peace, Beauty, Abundance, Love, Life and Wisdom, and we must erase any thought of lack, pain and dis-ease. We must impress our mind with that which already and forever exists.

Ruth Lambek

To reveal the 'Real', the false must be seen, a seeing of such intensity that the false cannot stand its gaze and falls away. 'Truth' insights, when they occur, are beyond the confines of time and space. To come into 'true seeing'one must live life in each moment in a fiery honesty. Only in this way will one ever identify oneself with the Living Truth and know it as oneself.

Bernie Prior

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 20th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Silent in the Presence

Interior silence is very difficult but we must make the effort. In silence we will find new energy and true unity. The energy of God will be ours to do all things well. The unity of our thought with his thoughts, the unity of our prayers with his prayers, the unity of our actions with his actions, of our life with his life.

All our words will be useless, unless they come from within -- works which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Is not our mission to give God to the poor in the slums? Not a dead God but a living loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Mother Teresa

More often I would not pray at all but silently allow the deep within to flow on and into the deep beyond.

Ramana Maharsh

A holy reverence checks our speech, And praise sits silent on our tongues.

Isaac Watts

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 21st 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- When Truth is Revealed

All truth is a species of revelation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jacob Boehme plainly began, while still very young, to revolt from the orthodox theology of his time, and his years of reading and of silent meditation and reflection were the actual preparation for what seemed finally to come to him like a sudden revelation, or, to use his own common figure, as 'a flash'.

Rufus M Jones

It is not the experience of Enlightenment that matters. It is only the ego's relationship to that experience that has any meaning. Two different individuals could undergo the very same spiritual experience and the ego of one will relate to the event in one way and the ego of the other will relate to that event in a very different manner. The very essence of an individual is revealed in the way they relate to experiences of bliss, emptiness, insight and illumination.

Revelatory experiences themselves do not transform anyone. It is only the inherent readiness of an individual to accept what is revealed in these experiences that can truly transform them.

Andrew Cohen

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 22nd 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Calming Inner Storms

By daily stilling my thoughts, I could win release from the delusive conviction that my body was a mass of flesh and bones, traversing the hard soil of matter.

The breath and the restless mind, I saw, are like storms that lash the ocean of light into waves of material forms -- earth, sky, human beings, animals, birds, trees. No perception of the Infinite as One Light can be had except by calming those storms.

As often as I quieted the two natural tumults, I beheld the multitudinous waves of creation melt into one lucent sea; even as the waves of the ocean, when a tempest subsides, serenely dissolve into unity.

Paramahansa Yoganada

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 23rd 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Unobservable Self

You are the knower of your body, senses and mind, but the knower can never be known, because you are it and there's nobody to know it. It can never become an object of observation because it is your totality.

Pandiji

The real You is that in or of yourselfhood which you cannot observe. In the inner world, the real You (or true Self) can be aware of thoughts, feelings and bodily senations, but cannot observe itself.

The real You is aware of the outer world through the senses, but also, when fully awakened or illumined, recognizes the essential nature of all individual phenomena as being spiritual, divine, and of the the same Substance as itself. This 'enlightened' Self perceives its connectedness to all things or to the All.

The real You is not male or female, young or old, of one race or nation or another and would not claim, for example, "I am a female" or "I am Australian". No condition can be attached to the true Self, it simply, knows with joy, humility and deep gratitude ... "I Am." ... with nothin needing to be added. All completeness and fulfillment is experienced by the enlightened Being in the eternal awareness of "I Am".

PSS

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 24th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Getting Used to the Light

Customer to optician: At first I was an athiest, then I saw the light! I became an agnostic, then I saw the light! I became a seeker, then I saw the light and became a religionist. Then I saw the light and became a true believer .... I'd like to buy some sun-glasses please.

Cartoon

You see, God is light, and to come face to face with that light is more intense than looking right into the hot sun. And so, if it has been frightening, it takes an adventurous spirit to make more than one attempt. It is not that God is frightening, but that the human senses are frightened at the unknown. Actually, there is nothing to fear.

Joel S Goldsmith

What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of divine Grace? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy burden of the world, and to bear the light yoke of spiritual discipline? Do we fear to be too happy, too much delivered from ourselves (the ego selves), from the caprices of our pride, the violence of our passions, and the tyranny of this deceitful world?

François Fénelon

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 25th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Dangerous Pride

I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: how clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.

Janwillem Van de Wetering

Pride is one of the most difficult obstacles to Enlightenment. Equate pride with whatever you imagine ego to be. Pride and ego are the same thing. Pride is the enemy if you want to be Free because it is pride that causes you to betray your deepest longing for Liberation.

Pride has a very ugly face. Pride is based on the idea that you know something. When you think you know something you feel special, and when you feel special you are separate. Ideas of specialness or superiority will separate you from what you claim to want the most.

As long as there are any ideas, gross or subtle, of specialness that are being cherished, you are sowing the very same seeds of violence and aggression that the whole human race is lost in.

Andrew Cohen

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 26th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- True Communion

Church-goers attending Holy Communion in a Devon parish have been asked to be a little more abstemious when they approach the altar. 'Take only a small sip of the wine in the chalice.' the vicar urged. 'You do not get any more of God by taking a large gulp.'

David Niblett - Daily Telegraph 14 April 1987

Realize that every time we sit down to a meal, we are at the communion table. We are in the Presence of God and we are partaking of the Divine Substance. Even in the so-called earthly food we partake of that Substance. It is all the product of the Light which is Love, which is the Spirit, which is what God IS.

H B Jeffrey

Communion for me, in truth, is beyond words. When you are really communing, there's a ground of stillness ... the mind is absolutely still. It does not move. It's just so still, and in that stillness is a depth of being. A depth of being that is so, so nourishing there's no need to move. And in that, a completeness is found.

Bernie Prior

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 27th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Valley of Silence

Long ago was I weary of voices Whose music my heart could not win; Long ago was I weary of noises That fretted my soul with their din; Long ago was I weary of places Where I met but the human -- and sin.

I walked in the world with the worldly; I craved what the world never gave; And I said: "In the world each Ideal, That shines like a star on life's wave, Is wrecked on the shores of the Real. And sleeps like a dream in a grave."

And still did I pine for the Perfect, And still found the False with the True. I sought 'mid the Human for Heaven, But caught a mere glimpse of its Blue: And I wept when the clouds of the Mortal Veiled even that glimpse from my view.

And I toiled on, heart-tired, of the Human, And I moaned 'mid the mazes of men, Till I discovered within me an altar And I heard a voice call me. Since then I walk down the Valley of Silence That lies deep in the heart of all men.

I walk down the Valley of Silence -- Down that dim, peaceful valley -- alone! And I hear not the fall of a footstep Around me, save God's and my own; And the hush of my heart is as holy As hovers where angels have flown!

Do you ask what I found in the Valley? 'Tis my Trysting Place with the Divine. And I fell at the feet of the Holy, And within me a voice said: "Be mine." And there arose from the depths of my spirit. An echo -- "My all shall be Thine."

Based on a poem by Abram Ryan

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 28th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Freedom Through Shedding

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

William James

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our own hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Nicholas Evans

Surrender to life as it is and not how you want it to be. You've got to surrender to it and shed that that's not real in your life -- and underneath that you'll find yourself, your true nature: joy. It's there. It's shedding, not adding, that sets you free.

Bernie Prior

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 29th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Returning Home

We travel the world in search of what we need and on returning home ... find it.

George Moore

Your only true destiny is to be home -- to return to the profundity that you came from whilst you're in the body. That's really your only destiny, because that is completeness. And when you've tasted that completeness you won't want anything else. In fact it's that that fills every aspect of your day to day life. There's nothing that you see that is not that. Nothing that you taste that is not that. Nobody that you see that is not that. It all becomes that. That's that. 'I' am that. And the 'I' is the I that's reading this -- not the I writing.

Bernie Prior

Take time to come home to yourself (your true Self) every day.

Robin Casarjean

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 30th 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Be What You Are

Be where you are. Be where you are. Don't make a future of this. This is not somewhere you're going to. This is something that you are. Don't make it that you're not. You ARE. You are always what you are. You can't be anything else. Be that that you are. And then you'll know who "I am".

Bernie Prior

Like a child separated at birth from its mother, we are separated from the Ground of Being. This separation is experienced by us as an exile, a state of disharmony and disunion. From it has come our present dualistic, fragmented consciousness, and the fears and anxieties which torment us. But the memory of fusion or union with the Ground of Life lives on in us as a longing for reunion, for the ecstasy of belonging once again to that greater other.

The mystics and sages of all times and cultures have tried to reveal to us what they have discovered: that we are in the Ground like a fish in the sea, like a bird in the air, and have tried to help us dissolve the illusion of our separate existence so that we would experience ourselves here and now, in this dimension, as what we truly are -- Divine Being.

Andrew Harvey

--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner

March 31st 2003

From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Outer Turmoil - Inner Calm

We are all tested. Anybody who is so bold as to accept Enlightenment here and now in this life will be tested even more.

The Enlightened person threatens the status quo. The way they think and the way they speak is very threatening to the corrupt world we live in. The living fact of Enlightenment makes people uneasy, frightened and angry.

Anyone who is so bold as to accept Enlightenment in this life will be very severely tested. They will have to face all kinds of trouble.

Andrew Cohen

Christ's life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived: tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.

Henry Drummond