Category: Discernment

Caught up in attachment to results

We are so caught up in attachment to results and our insecurity about what is happening that we are blocking ourselves. I wish I could get you to see that you are the one blocking yourself. Despite what it may look like, no one else is blocking you. If you would just be with whatever…

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You're never given anything

You’re never given anything you can’t handle.  That’s a spiritual dictum.  As a new dilemma presents itself, you have the strength to handle it.  There’s never a loss.  As soon as you have strength you can’t use, it becomes a dilemma of what to do with your strength, your talent, your ability.  Then the dilemma…

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By the name of God I mean an infinite

By the name of God I mean an infinite, eternal, immutable, independent, all-knowing, all-powerful substance. Metaphysical meditations (1641) On a single point God’s power is lacking: he cannot make what has happened not happen. The soul […] is really distinct from the body, and yet, it is so closely conjoined and united to it that…

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