My Notes on From the TEMPLE WITHIN: 4th Book of Light by Evan T. Pritchard
Chapter 4: LOVE - The Way of the Eternal
- At the heart of all things is Love. It is the mystery of mysteries & the most accessible of all of God's qualities.
- The only relationship that lasts is between Soul & Its God, and this is the bitter & beautiful truth that man learns.
- Love is only this; the communication of the Divine One with Itself throughout vast worlds of Its imagining.
- To speak of it in more commonplace terms, love is recognition of that divine presence in all things at all times.
- Those who experience the Newness of Eternity even for a moment, are filled with divine patience.
- Those who touch the Hereness of Eternity experience great humility, and no longer travel far & wide to pursue some earthly paradise, for the greatness of God surrounds them in the palace & the alleyway alike.
- If you want to acquire the essence of God, put your attention to Is-ness, for the Isness of God is love, and that is the key to the mystery of mysteries.
- The average person goes through life struggling to forge a single bridge between self & one other person ... But if he/she does succeed, it is no small milestone, for the loving of 1 person is not so different than loving all Souls & all life, for each is a microcosm of the whole.
- Love is the direct path to man's destiny.
- Open your heart to God & God will open up the passage way to heaven within you.
- But for those who love there is nothing to explain, and nothing to be forgiven.
- Life is a feast of splendor, yet every feast is someone's loss.
- God is a million miles away, and yet here within us.
- As Soul, there is a beauty within the core of our being that is beyond any beauty of this world ... The beauty is the seed of divine action, and an aspect of the love that just is, and allows us to connect with God.
- To communicate with the Godhead through inner light & sound is an essential to our wellbeing as food & water.
- This is a natural part of a life well lived, and not an accomplishment or a special gift.
- Connecting with nature, with the earth, helps balance us out & heal us within.
- The good medicine of being grounded in nature.
- Love is the color of God.
- The spiritual warrior walks a fine line at every moment. They must stand astride 2 horses into the frey of everyday life - compassion & nonattachment. To cling to one is to lose the other. To see them as enemies is to drive the team apart & be trampled underfoot.
- The warrior who is at war with self will be at war with the whole world & will outnumber self & destroy the thing he/she loves.
- Fear is the enemy, and out of its jaws come the 5 deadly horsemen: anger, lust, greed, attachment & vainglory.
- Whatever we call "evil" is whatever our enemy is doing.
- Soul is free. It seeks spiritual liberation while in this world.
- Free will is the thumbprint of God. It is our most precious possession, for without it we would cease to learn spiritually.
- The last & greatest choice is to surrender to the divine will, but since it's the most important choice, it has to be an honest choice.
- No one escapes pain & suffering. No matter how much of a perfectionist you are, everything will not always go right.
- If you cannot let go of pride, if you cannot forgive, if you cannot bend - you will eventually be broken by the vastness of life.
- The 1st step in any spiritual journey is to accept where you are, and then take one step.
- To conquer suffering you must be detached even from your detachment, and be able to weep for your losses & those of others, and then start over.
- What all this leads up to is simply the realization that the inadequacies of life demand compassion & nonattachment: nonattachment so that we are not overwhelmed by the web of circumstance, and compassion because we are so intricately connected to that web.
- Through the web of opposites steps Soul. It is a training ground where Soul becomes strong enough to look into the secret place where men dare not look, to find God.
- The dance of opposites energizes the material world, but the spiritual man holds to the middle.
- Words of medicine are not poison, and they are not sugar, they are real love, real truth, applied correctly.
- This is something we should practice every day, and if at some point, the windows of the mind are flung open to the vastness of all existence, it is at that moment that all the compassion & love & most certainly the non-attachment we have learned will come to our aid. This is the middle way.
- Learn to listen to that inner guidance, and you will be amazed at what you can do.
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