by Francis Bitterly | Nov 10, 2019 | Wisdom
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold...
by Francis Bitterly | Oct 24, 2019 | Wisdom
“The essence of mind is only awareness or consciousness. When the ego, however, dominates it, it functions as the reasoning, thinking or sensing faculty. The cosmic mind, being not limited by the ego, has nothing separate from itself and is therefore only...
by Francis Bitterly | Oct 1, 2019 | Wisdom
Q: Do things happen as you want them to happen, or do you want them to happen as they happen? M: Both. I accept and am accepted. I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water,...
by Francis Bitterly | Sep 21, 2019 | Wisdom
The Beatitudes “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for...
by Francis Bitterly | Jun 6, 2019 | Wisdom
Nisargadatta Maharaj: His story of meeting his Guru My guru told me: “…attend to the sense ‘I am’. Go back to that state of pure being, where the ‘I am’ is still in its purity before it got contaminated with ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that.’...
by Francis Bitterly | Feb 17, 2019 | Wisdom
Jesus said: “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world .. that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I...
