Category: Spiritual Writings

Greater Awareness Of The Infinite

“The English poet Robert Browning wrote a beautiful and instructive passage in which Paracelsus, a seeker of truth, says:

TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perception—which is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error: and, to KNOW,
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.

The power and knowledge of the Infinite are expressed through finite humans. ‘The imprisoned splendour’ described by Browning speaks of this Godhead within us that may be unconsciously blocked from our finite conscious minds.  The potential for more conscious communication with The God Source is ever within us. With daily meditative silence, we may open to greater awareness of the Infinite.”

EdgarCayce.org, Venture Inward Magazine, From The Infinite Into The Divine, Herbert Puryear PhD., p. 20.

 

 

 

 

Your Purpose For This Life Experience

“According to the Edgar Cayce philosophy, each person living on the earth is here for a specific soul purpose; a purpose that no one else can fulfill. While for some people, their purpose might be directly related to a profession or vocation, for others it could simply be a particular way of living day by day. Finding and then understanding and living your soul’s purpose is actually a life-long process. As your knowledge grows and deepens, you will find greater and greater opportunities for fulfilling your life’s mission.

To discover clues to your own life’s purpose, ask yourself these questions:

  • What makes my heart sing?
  • When in my life do I feel a sense of wonder?
  • In what ways do I feel called to be of service to others?
  • When do I feel closest to God?

The Cayce readings suggest that we are closest to living our soul’s purpose when we feel joyful, when we are in awe of the wonder of life around us, when we are being of service to others, and when we are deeply aware of our connection to God.

In your contemplative or meditation time, ask your higher self, ‘What is my soul’s purpose? Why am I here in the earth at this time?’ Then become aware of the answers that will come to you through that ‘still, small voice’ from within, or through synchronous events, or even through your dreams. Your soul is communicating with you all the time, and its greatest desire is for you to fulfill your purpose for this life experience.”

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You Have Lived Many, Many Lives

“The Yogi Philosophy teaches that YOU who are reading these lines, have lived many, many lives.  You have lived in the lower forms of life, working your way up gradually in the scale.  After you passed into the human phase of existence you lived as the caveman, the cliff dweller, the savage, the barbarian; the warrior, the knight; the priest; the scholar of the Middle Ages; – now in Europe; now in India; now in Persia; now in the East; now in the West.  In all ages, – in all climes – among all peoples – of all races – have you lived, had your existence, played your part, and died.

In each life have you gained experiences; learned your lessons; profited by your mistakes; grown, developed, and unfolded.  And when you passed out of the body, and entered into the period of rest between incarnations, your memory of the past life gradually faded away, but left its place the result of the experiences you had gained from it.  After each life, there is sort of a boiling down of the experiences, and the result – the real result of the experience – goes to make up a part of the new self – the improved self – which will after a while seek a new body into which to reincarnate.

Those who have not awakened to the truth of rebirth, cannot have it forced upon them by argument, and those who ‘feel’ the truth of it do not need the argument.  So we have not attempted to argue the matter in this short presentation of the theory.  Those who are reading this lesson are attracted toward the subject by reason of interest awakened in some past life, and they really feel there must be some truth in it, although they may not as yet have arrived at a point where they can fully assimilate it.”

Fourteen Lessons In Yogi Philosophy, Yogi Ramacharaka, p. 232 – 237.

The Most Important Elements In Prayer

“Never pray with the attitude of a beggar.  You are God’s child.  As His child, you have a right to the treasure from His storehouse of infinity.

Pray with utter confidence that He is listening.  For indeed, so He will, if you pray to Him with love.  Pray from your heart, with deep intensity.

Demand of Him lovingly; never beg.  By demand  I don’t mean you should try to force your will on Him, as though anticipating His reluctance to accede to your wishes.  I mean, pray with the firm conviction that He wants to give you everything you need, and that He will give it.

Jesus put it this way: ‘Pray believing.’

Utter faith, and love: these are the most important elements in prayer.”

The Essence Of Self-Realization – The Wisdom Of Paramhansa Yogananda, Recorded and compiled by his disciple, Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), p. 158.