Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness

The best we can do is become an environment that allows every person we meet to open in the optimum way they can open. The way you “raise” a child is to create a space with your own love and consciousness to allow that child to become whatever he or she can become in this lifetime.

The sacrifice was leaving the Father in the first place and becoming the Son.

Our personal story becomes a spiritual journey, our ego-centric universe becomes a particle in an infinite field of light.

A conscious being uses everything. Nothing goes down the disposal—including the moment of death, which can be the most profound moment of the incarnation for growth and awakening when we are ready to use it that way.

The only reason a totally free being would choose to stay within the illusion is to relieve the suffering of all beings. This is the time when what’s known as “the Bodhisattva Vow” is taken. This is the only moment it’s real. Up until then it’s phony—it’s our karma working out. The moment we choose to come back, we have to push against that force t

It does seem that we have to be somebody before we can become nobody.

“When I don’t know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you.”

Thus the “guides” must be at a certain stage of their own evolution in order to be environments for awakening through death. They must have a connection with planes of consciousness beyond time and space that lead them to have a philosophical foundation that allows them to be balanced and without panic in the face of death. They must view death not

The only time we might need to intervene with people is when their actions are limiting the opportunities for other human beings to be free.