The journey of each talk covers many topics and weaves a tapestry of interwoven ideas, concepts, and explanations to reflect on, and inspire us to become more. Each talk is approximately 30 minutes long.
We live our lives as a temporary manifestation. We come into creation through the joining of a sperm and an egg. We gestate in our mother’s womb for a period of time, and then we are born as a baby. This baby is then in need of constant care in order to survive. It cannot […]
#341 When We Justify Hate We Are Enslaved In Illusion Read More »
The words transcendence and transcend are thrown around a lot in spiritual communities, and among spiritual people. What does it mean to transcend, and what is transcendence? What is the crux of it? How should it be understood? The scientific community has now discovered that there is much more to existence than meets the
The Prophet Muhammad was sitting with a group of Arabs and one of them asked, “When will the end of times come?” The Prophet Muhammad looked at him and said, “What have you done to prepare for that?” The man said, “I have done nothing but learn to love my Lord and love my Prophet.”
One of the major difficulties that we have in the world is stress. The anxiety of everyday living causes stress. Stress has interesting affects on our physical body. Basically, stress constricts, it makes our blood vessels smaller, and brings about high blood pressure. Stress has a lot of other affects on us. The body reacts
#338 When We Walk With God There Is Nothing To Fear Read More »
If you go to India and you go see a Hindu temple, on the outside of the temple you will usually see, on the roof portion of the temple, gods, or images of gods, piled on top of each other, and painted representations of the different deities within Hinduism. If you go to a Buddhist
We are either thinking about the things we do, or just reacting as we go through our day. Intention is a very powerful thing, and we have to question ourselves as to do we actually intend the things we do, or do we just do them? How does our day progress and what kind of
In our everyday world we look out and we see things, and we relate to them, and we relate to them as outside of ourselves. So we have we, us, I, and what’s outside of ourselves. There’s not a unity between ourselves and everything around us; there’s a duality. Zikr is a word that means
A time comes in a person’s life when something happens to them, and they begin to ask some questions about themselves. And the three main questions are: Who am I? Where did I come from? And where am I going to? A curiosity develops in people as to these questions, and they begin to search
We are constantly shown things that are disturbing to our psyche. It used to be that our world was our village, and our villages were pretty small. And to travel from one village to another was a major event. I remember, when I was growing up, and I grew up on a farm, that to
The disparity in understandings between formlessness and form is one that runs through religion, and has run through religion, forever. To understand spirituality, one needs to have some understanding, some belief in, some faith in, some acknowledgement of formlessness. Without formlessness, and without the understanding of formlessness, religion concentrates on form. So you have various
