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You can't study spirit directly, but you can learn to see what's divine and celestial in the world around you. In studying a fire you come to understand what's required in order for the wood to become enflamed. Similarly, in your spiritual life, if you wish for the holy spirit to come into you and transform you, you must do your part, by bringing yourself to the place where revelation can take...

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You can't study spirit directly, but you can learn to see what's divine and celestial in the world around you. In studying a fire you come to understand what's required in order for the wood to become enflamed. Similarly, in your spiritual life, if you wish for the holy spirit to come into you and transform you, you must do your part, by bringing yourself to the place where revelation can take place and then remaining in the heat of the upheaval and disturbance you feel. Until you want this more than you want "your" life, nothing will change for you.

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The pain you go through when there is a higher purpose behind it is not the same as the pain when there is no useful purpose. Pain gives you a purpose that serves nothing but the nature that serves it. The clearer that becomes, you will no longer be afraid to "sell all" in moments when you are invited to turn the other cheek and not speak out from your suffering.

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spiritual strength, limitations, weakness, fulfillment, despair

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When you see the poverty of your present fallen nature, the wish to have your attention on the divine and ask it to be with you naturally follows. The more aware you are of a pain that you can't push away, the more you are naturally in prayer.

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Just as St. Paul was forgiven by Christ for all the wrongdoing he was complicit in, so will the man or woman who brings their own "mud" into the light be relieved of their spiritual debt. The greater the debt, the greater the gratitude for being released from it.

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mercy, self observation, watchfulness, observer is the observed

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regret, guilt, pretense, pretending, avoidance, running away

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The rewards that we give ourselves are not real rewards. They're passing pleasures, momentary possessions, and fleeting feelings born out of an attempt to reduce or release oneself from a certain amount of tension. Because of this, the very act of rewarding ourselves is always incomplete and actually ties us to a certain unseen pattern of avoiding situations when they get "too hard." When you...

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When your mind holds a picture of how your life should be, a sense of self is created that can never be at peace, and desperation replaces natural aspiration. Instead of looking for consolation in things outside of you, learn what it means to see your life through the eyes of the Divine. You'll find that something within you already knows what is real from what is false.

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There are natural hopes born out of a natural attraction. But when the thing aspired for is the result of wishing to escape or fix who you are, then that hope becomes contradictory and actually sows the seed of conflict. When natural hope turns into something that formulates an identity, it becomes a punishment to you and everyone around you.

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