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Question: Can you talk a little on the power of suggestion? ~~~ Suggestion refers to a proposal, that is put forth for consideration. What matters is the source of the suggestion. When the source of the suggestion is love, freedom and not a personal agenda, the suggestion celebrates happiness and…
Hurts are impermanent sensation impressions that stubbornly linger when thought argues with them. When thought insists that you are a body mind, when thought insists that phenomenal events are personal, you are engrossed in the struggle and you do not realize the causeless freedom and happiness of…
The higher perspective of consciousness
From the higher perspective, from the perspective of universal consciousness, all is well and unfolding at it should (as Robert Adams used to say). The wisdom of consciousness sheds its light onto the mind reminding it of the path of love and surrender. Reminding it of the causeless peace, joy and…
The placeless place that we seek
The place we are seeking is a placeless place that is not limited by space and time. The beauty of placelessness, spacelessness and timelessness is the freedom that is revealed by the borderless quality of consciousness. Nothing truly limits consciousness, the aware presence that reads these words…
The eternity of God is infinite
We are helped in every way. God helps us and loves us. It is God's love that sends us challenging situations, even seemingly desperate situations. Just what is needed. It might seem pretty desperate for the mind, impossible to bear and you wonder where is the way out? God takes you in and it is in…
Question: What is thought? Is this where separation occurs? Reply: Separation is the belief that I, consciousness, am limited to a particular form, to a particular body mind. Separation occurs at the mental level, meaning at the thought level as well as at the feeling level meaning at the body…
All things fall in the realm of right and wrong, in the realm of opposites. All things are mind events. It is the mind that philosophizes and argues. As the mind perceives external things (world), it simultaneously perceives an internal thing (separate self) as well and therefore division and…
The dreamer is beyond all dreams
Indeed, dreaming that I am a person does not turn the dreamer into a person. All dreams are mind impressions. The dreamer is beyond all dreams. Although the dreamer is the reality of all dreams, reality remains undefined by the dreams, no matter what they may be. In ignorance, the dream characters…
We get concerned about dying as we mistakenly imagine the death of the dream to be my death. Thus we hold on to the dream while every night we willingly release it in deep sleep. Why are we so attached to the fleeting? Is it not that we mistake the fleeting to be permanent? Is it not that we…
All latent sense of angst are bodily sensations arising as clouds in the vastness of being. The space is infinite and does not contract around whatever arises in it. There is no real danger as the eternal is beyond the changing rhythms of the mind. Everything appears in the vastness whereby God's…
You trust the mind to take you where the mind is not. How foolish! Questioner: That is all you have at your disposal. is it not? Reply: The mind comes and goes. What you have at your disposal is the eternity and infinity of consciousness. Since you rely on the mind and on the senses you believe the…
All states of consciousness exist through my non existence and as my non existence. Ö. S. : To say I am non existent you must exist, don't you? Reply: What we refer to as existence is relative to other objects and requires someone to know it. That is what we refer to as the mind. The reality of…
Love is beyond gender. It is not a man meeting a woman or a woman meeting a man. It is the recognition of our divine nature, expressed and manifesting in what the mind calls a relationship. While the mind is engulfed in the pursuit of happiness in the myriad forms. the divine's invitation comes…
There is no need to resist God
Through life events Through situations and relationships God is fine tuning the map. Leading you . From the mind to the divine From the worldly to the unborn To the unconditional. There is no need to resist God. Simply listen Say Yes! She sends you gifts . Pearls of wisdom that transcend the…
Yes, it is thought that says: I am a man. I am Magdi. I am fat, short, tall, old, aging, etc. I choose to believe thought and in doing so, I have accepted thought as my guide and master. In choosing thought as my guide, I accept thought's messages. I accept mind as my lord and doing so, I turn your…
It is the mind and our fascination with it that complicates things. The I-thought is convoluted weaving an intricate web of trickery and confusion unraveling in imaginary realms of time and space. Veils upon veils of personal stories disguised as truth. True nature is awe and fascination. A…
What makes our dreams so unhappy?
We are trying to heal from our own dreams. What makes our dreams so unhappy? Is it not our identification with the mortality of the body mind? Are we not the awareness to which the body mind appears as the self and as everything? Is aware presence a limited personal self or is it the borderless…
One could be ashamed of a silly thing, such as being one inch too short, or having improper table manners, etc. We pick up all sorts of silly emotions when we are young and vulnerable. Many adults are too callous and insensitive towards children and are very careless. At school friends…
Identification and the death of the body
When we are identified with the body, we believe and feel that the death of the body is our death. Mental projections . . rooted in the body at the feeling level. Uprooting ignorance is the name of the spiritual game. Our true nature is transparent, unencumbered, uncluttered by the world, body…
What maintains the sense of self?
The sense of self is maintained via the feeling state, via bodily sensations. That is where the me-identification roots itself. That is where we get entangled, in the feelings. Then the I-thought sticks to the feeling and relies on the feeling as its evidence that, indeed, I am a mortal body…
Finding fault with the oneself or another created an illusory division in the seamless and borderless open space of being. The mind becomes charged with a sense of separate me and with the angst of judgment. Finding fault with the other maintains the me and you duality and maintains the contraction…
The cosmos in one interconnected system
The entire cosmos is one whole interconnected system, like a mobile . wholeness where one part affects the whole . nothing can be removed or added. In spite of the habitual tendency of thought to label, classify, structure and divide according to its own assumptions and imagined reference points,…
You are the home that you seek.
You are the home that you seek! You are the divine light, choosing to forget itself. You are the intelligence, wisdom, beauty, love, infinity, eternity of the Self, choosing to impersonate a separate consciousnesses. There are no real issues, only imagined ones. When you choose to identify with the…
What is the difference between consciousness and mind?
Question: What is the difference between consciousness and mind? How do they relate? ~~~ Reply: By consciousness I refer to whatever it is that truly perceives. By mind I refer to whatever appears. These could be thoughts, sensations or perceptions. Although consciousness does not appear as a form,…
We are the love, the beauty the tenderness the one heart. We are the love made out of each other. We are the love, the beauty, the tenderness, the one heart. We are the love, made out of each other. You are me and I am you You breathe my breath and I breathe yours. We are the love, the beauty, the…