The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

–Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

W H O . A M . I . T A L K I N G . T O ?

Hello? Hello?
Who am I talking to?
You?
Or, your mind?
( Your mind is that which
keeps getting in your way! )

You cannot KNOW home:
You can only BE home.
Being is what we’re trying
(in vain) to locate.
But we know it’s right here.

I feel blah blah blah
I think blah blah blah
I want blah blah blah
” I ” is the only significant
thing we want to address.

DrRobinStarbuck

Here’s an experience that’ll bring us to a delightful sense of
I N T E G R I T Y :
Discovering that what we held dear 30 years ago is prolly correct after all!
We were young and believed that God loved us and listened to us and fought our battles for us, right?
When did He stop? Okay, so He lives in us…. Nope! No more! He now lives as us.
Got that.
But when did He ever stop listening, loving, caring….?
When we found that He lives AS us?
My take on it? – He never stopped. If we don’t f-e-e-e-e-l it as other than Him loving us now, let’s treasure what we’ve got…
‘Coz it might come in handy again.
Jus’ sayin’!

IS THE BODY NECESSARY TO KNOW I EXIST?

Friend: Hi Dear Magdi,
I was walking and contemplating today and the thought came to me “Is the body necessary to know I exist?”
And then as I sit in silence and do your meditations the body as I know it disappears…and yet I know I exist
….so the seeming appearance “concept called the body” is necessary until it is seen through or is no longer necessary?
Thank you,
Love,

Reply: The Self IS. Consciousness IS. Reality IS.
The mind cannot comprehend the ISness of Aware/Presence as long as the glimpse into the Self is absent.
Upon the glimpse into the Self, and upon the ongoing contemplation of truth, ISness blooms and the belief in a physical reality wanes, dissolving in the blooming of wisdom.

In ignorance, the world body mind is the reality and consciousness is a concept. And yes, in ignorance the body is necessary to know that I exist. But this I is not the true Self. It is an arising that is mistaken for the Self.
In wisdom, consciousness is the reality and the world body mind is a concept. In wisdom, the body mind is not necessary to know the Self since the knowingness of the Self is a ‘direct’ knowingness that bypasses any medium. No bridge is necessary since the Self is Self-knowing.

To go from ignorance to wisdom we contemplate the reality of our experience which reveals the reality and universality of consciousness and the impermanence of the waking dream.
Once the wisdom of the Self is revealed, no world body mind is needed to know oneself. This knowingness is beyond the mind, beyond description, beyond words. It is an inner knowingness that is expressed in/as the inner silence of Being.
Love,
Magdi

All that you see is GOD, LIFE, being made visible. It is absolutely real, but it is passing away even as it comes into visibility. In the dream we have called the visible world “physical”, “material”, “human”, but ALL is SPIRIT and ALL IS GOD BEING. All the visible forms are simply ideas in the ONE and ONLY GREAT MIND we call GOD.

BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL IT NOT
~ Alfred Aiken

I had a simple
little sentence
I wanted to say –
but correctly –
so that I could
work with its contents.
Had the hardest time
getting it out though.
Started out “I need …”
[Watch your identity.]
“I-Spirit need …”
[Impossible!!]
Had just wanted to add:
” . . . illumination
. . . guidance
. . . silence
. . . clarification”.
Yeah I guess right identity
does take care of everything.

QQ-CMK: WHAT DO YOU MEDITATE?

RJS (me): Great question! I love it!
To tell the truth that was/is meditation in its purest form. You see, I never “needed” (lacked) anything at all. I [Robin] had/have the very thing I thought I wanted. With a whole new awareness (new every day) I see that I include the fullness of God AS MY IDENTITY. I’m not a vulnerable mortal, but am complete and already ONE. Every question I thought I had above is now answered in and AS Spirit. Basking in all this joy is meditation-plus!

Having thoroughly dispensed with religion,
We’re free to step out of mortality
into our true identity
as I-Spirit, Consciousness, I Am,
Soul, Self, God, ONE,
And see ourself as The Only BE-ing
that there is.