Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness

If we cling to anything in form, we’re going to suffer.

By letting go of even the thought I, what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being.

Be right here, aware of sitting here, aware of the self-definition that you’re creating in your own mind. Aware of your ears listening. Aware of me speaking. Aware of the traffic outside. Aware of the feelings in your body. Aware of your mind grabbing at this and that. Just sit with me in this awareness. There is nothing we have to do; just come in

But what is the condition necessary so that the moment comes when we see through the veil in a way that changes everything from then on, so that from a minute past six to twelve o’clock our whole journey changes its meaning? What’s necessary for that to happen is despair. We realize that everything we think we can do to create perfection isn’t goin

In order to be open to this merging, many of us who have smoked pot or taken acid, or had other vehicles for overriding our programs, know that we can set aside our programs for a moment and enter into the higher channels; but after a while, we come down, and, as a result, we get very frustrated. What brings us down is our attachment to the models

As we enter into the realm of channel six, the last moment of recognition of any kind of self-consciousness is the realization that all of channels one through five were creations of mind. A liberated being is a being who is free to be in, but not attached to, any of the realities. It is a being who can enter into the ocean of channel six and yet r

What do you want for dessert, ice cream? I’m gonna have some coffee. What’s on television? No, let’s go bowling. Bicycle? Great. Ice cream soda? Let’s go home. Okay. Want to go to bed? Okay. Ah, that’s great. Got a cigarette?” On and on and in the middle of the main course, we’re already thinking about what we’ll have for dessert. The way we deal w

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

At first, when we have just started the spiritual journey, every time we are confronted with all the things we’re afraid of—disasters or accidents or we get mugged or we get raped or we lose our job or something “awe-ful” happens—we say, “Oh, get away from me. I want happiness. I want pleasure. I didn’t know this was part of the bargain.” But later

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