BANISHING DISTRESS

Q: How does reading your lessons and practicing your homework help you in the rest of your life?

A: When a dark energy (such as ignorance and reliance upon negative thoughts) is banished inwardly (replaced by Truth), it loses all power outwardly. When there is nothing anxious within you, there is nothing distressful outside of you!

OCTOBER 2008 MESSAGE: LETTING GO OF THE PAST

I decided to take a look back into the past, to the message I wrote October 2008 on my official website. (I used to write monthly message on my website, though now it's mostly every two months. Too busy writing for our school!) I thought you might like to read it too. I especially like the idea that to our past self, we are the future self, and to our future self, we are the past self! Get it? Anyway, if you'd like to read that message, it's here: http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/octobermessage2008.htm

SPECIAL OFFER

L.A. ANGEL WEEKEND, LOS FELIZ, CA, OCTOBER 29-30, 2011

Here is a special offer for students who have registered for the upcoming angel weekend. You may offer the seminar to another person for only $90. This means that you can split the total cost with another person in any way you like, so you pay less, or just give the seminar to someone as gift.

An NPR story

Hello Everyone. I am posting a little story here that I just read. It's from NPR (national public radio). It made me smile. I like stories that contain spiritual truth and make me smile. Maybe you will like it too. You have to click below to read it, because it's sorta long. It's called: Lessons Learned From Luggage Lost

DAWN

Dawn is just stealing over the horizon, bringing daylight to this part of the world. I enjoy the stillness of early morning, before it is fully light, alone with only the silence. Being able to be alone with only ourself is important. Otherwise, we will always be pulling at someone to fill our loneliness. We will be needy and clingy. We will see others, not as who they are, but as someone to fill our loneliness. We will pull energy from the very people we are supposed to love. We will add to their burden.

HEALING FEAR

The way to heal fear is to go against it. Do the thing you are most afraid of. This gives fear the message that it is not stronger than your heart. If you let fear rule you, then fear becomes stronger. That is, old habits of fear and limitation become stronger. Everyone is afraid all the time. It may come across as anger, frustration, control, or whatever, but the basis of all negative emotions is fear. Proceed in spite of fear. If you wait for all fear to disappear before taking a step, you will wait forever. Only by taking a step can we overcome fear. We are, of course, not talking about healthy fear, such as avoiding the snake in your path.

Sunday Morning The past is burned in the fire of time

In Oberwil, Switzerland, where I was just a few short weeks ago, the church bells are surely ringing, as they do throughout each day, along with the cowbells. I love hearing the cow bells and they remind me that at least some cows are still free to roam the hills, not locked in dark barns, unable to move at all. Although most animals have no choice but to bend to the will of man, human beings do have a choice. We can choose to walk a spiritual path. We can choose to keep on trekking, no matter how hard or dark the way may seem. And it does seem hard and dark at times.

Jamestown, NY, USA

Hi Everyone, I found myself surprised when I entered our Open Classroom today. I'd totally forgotten that I'd changed the decor. Our school is designed in a spontaneous way that lets us know that while everything on the outside changes, there is something on the inside that always remains constant....our inner self, awareness, consciousness.