Benji

• Due to my own exhausting skepticism, I am still not entirely sure what my relationship to God and prayer is. But my nightly reviews have increasingly been accompanied with the wish that “Thy will be done.” I have zero confidence that I have sufficient self-knowledge to manifest exactly the right path for myself, and the more I’ve leaned into surrendering control the better my life has gotten. But this surrender always seems to come with a fear of my family falling into material insecurity. The good news is that specific fear’s also a path back to the main quest.

• Because money tends to be one of the biggest barriers on our path to a life we truly love, our money triggers are critical indicators of precisely where we need to integrate our consciousness. Put another way: money often makes us do things that are out of integrity.

• As we move further from fear, he shows us how to create from an increasingly loving and authentic place. It’s one of the most interesting and useful conversations I’ve had. He concluded his masterclass with fifteen steps on the path to making the transition from fear to integrity. This helps shift you from the black magic of “my will be done,” to the more subtle miracles of “Thy will be done.” If love is one of the most powerful forces in the Universe, coming into ever greater integrity with it will enhance the creative potential of your thoughts.

• Your job is to find the place you're out of integrity and align so that you can continue to be like a larger and larger conduit of this wildly loving, fantastically intelligent consciousness that ultimately we all are.

• Martha Beck

• Since the principle of interbeing and interpenetration in the Avatamsaka Sutra refuses to accept the concepts of inner/outer, big/small, one/many as real, it also refuses the concept of space as an absolute reality. With respect to time, the conceptual distinction between past, present, and future is also destroyed. The Avatamsaka Sutra says that past and future can be put into the present, present and past into the future, present and future into the past, and finally all eternity into one ksana, the shortest possible moment. To summarize, time, like space, is stamped with the seal of interdependence, and one instant contains three times: past, present, and future