4-1-11 Gita 18:44
What is the purpose of the mind?
What is the duty of the senses?
What carries people away from the spiritual path?
What are the three aspects of Brahman and how are they expressed?
What is a true Brahman?
What does it mean to honor the senses and why is it important?
What is enlightened selfishness?
What is the connection between selfishness and desire?
Why is spiritual desire not an expression of lack?
Why is it so difficult to be truthful?
4-3-11 FEAR NOT Luke, Ch. 12, v 2-7
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus talks of the impossibility of hiding anything, the folly of fear of those who can hurt the body, but are unable to touch the soul, and the tremendous value of each of us to God, does this passage really say that God is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent and omni-love?
While we clean our outer ear, does meditation clean our inner ear?
Are the teachings of the Bible a little distorted from all the retelling over the years? How can we discern the Truth?
If we know how to ask questions, do we know how to listen to the answers?
Does the Father/Mother/Source in us really do it all?
Have we engaged in the destructive emotions of the world long enough?
Is it important to replace the annoyances we experience with what we need and want to experience?
In our journey, what could be more self-corrective than to be willing to face all our fears?
Who created any of our fears?
Is hatred the opposite of love? Or is it fear that is the opposite of love?
If we keep things covered up, are we actually dwelling on them subconsciously?
Are we here for self-enlightenment or to repeat old patterns?
Does releasing our fear lead to greater health and joy?
Is the nature of Truth to reveal the untruth?
When you turn on the light, what is the first thing you feel?
Vibrationally, do we transmit our thought waves to the one we think of? Does it acquire increasing power? Will they feel it?
Is it our responsibility to practice healing consciousness?
Is it important for us not to allow ourselves to be hoodwinked into believing that God is judgmental, to be feared, harsh or cruel?
Can God create anything that contradicts Its own nature? So could God create suffering or evil?
When the premise is that God is love, is it true that the more you love, the more you become unconditional?
Is it important to see beyond delusions to see the presence of God in everyone?
4-10-11 NEED FOR SELF-DISCIPLINE Luke Ch 12, v 8-10
In today's passage, Jesus discusses the importance of acknowledging God - is this passage often easily misunderstood?
Is it most important to understand the consequences of engaging in affirmations and denials?
What are these consequences?
If someone is ill, and we affirm their improvement, is that merely a temporary placebo?
Can continued affirmation block us from getting to the root of the problem?
If we acknowledge the Son of man before humanity, will that mean we are acknowledging the Angel of God's presence in the world?
Are affirmations preparatory processes for the next stages of our growth?
Do affirmations often deny issues we are reluctant to see? Is this the opposite of what we really want?
When we acknowledge God, is the healing truth triggered within us?
When we acknowledge God, are we spiritually single minded? Is this spiritual self-discipline?
Does acknowledgement get us away from negative thoughts and pessimism?
Does being in a state of denial presuppose there is something present of which we are already aware?
If we deny something, does it mean we know it's there and don't want it to be there?
Will it disappear because we deny it? Do we have the power to transcend denial and affirmation?
Has God given us the Heart to know Him?
Is it a tremendous spiritual self-discipline to practice acknowledgment?
In spite of its difficulty, can the mind be mastered? How? What are the two essentials?
4-17-11 TRIUMPHAL ENTRY Matthew Ch 20, v 29-34; Ch 21, v 1-14; Zechariah Ch 9, v 9
In the passages for the day describing the Palm Sunday entrance into Jerusalem of Jesus, why did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a donkey?
How can we get inside the Christ consciousness to understand what happened on Palm Sunday?
How do we get to a deeper understanding of the passages of the Bible?
What did many people think would happen when Jesus came into Jerusalem?
What is the significance of the two blind men?
Is spiritual blindness more debilitating than the physical kind?
Where was Jesus focusing as he rode into Jerusalem?
How do we rise in consciousness? Is it making God the center of our life and love?
Do we sometimes block ourselves? Do we have to confront the resistances within us?
Is stillness necessary to hear the Word of God?
Are we willing to stand still and listen to the needs of others?
Are these experiences part of the journey?
Does Love ask us, "What would you have me do?"
What can we see with the eye of God? Is everything the manifestation of the creative spriit?
Is Divine Love always available to us? If it is, why don't we turn to it for aid?
How can we get out of our personal darkness?
4-18-11 Psalm 98: 4-6
What does the word song mean in this psalm?
How can we cultivate a lively awareness of the presence of God?
What are the triune expressions of God?
How do we partake of the omniscience of God?
What happens when we practice praise?
When we continue being upset about something, what is that about?
What is acknowledgment?
When we use our imagination constructively, what can we transform?
How do we find joy each moment?
What is the difference between finding God and practicing the presence of God?
4-22-11 Maundy Thursday
How do we get into the atmosphere of Maundy Thursday?
What does a disciple submit himself to?
How do we observe Passover in daily life?
When we bless food, what happens?
What is the substance of all things in the world?
What is the only thing we lack?
What does the washing of the feet signify?
What does Peter represent?
What do the feet represent?
How do we come to spiritual understanding when we’ve done something harmful?
4-24-11 LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, I AM RISEN Luke Ch 24, v 1-9; John Ch 20, v 1-18
In the passages for this Easter Sunday, describing the disciples with Mary finding the tomb empty and Jesus had risen, how does the mystical aspect of these passages help us to inject ourselves into the moment of Resurrection?
What is special about Easter Sunday? Is it important to reflect on the spirit of Resurrection?
What does it take, what kind of unfoldment is necessary to arise into Universality?
Is there anything we cannot overcome?
What is the measure of our understanding?
Is the first step spiritual awakening? When does spiritual awakening arrive?
What do we see in the lives of all the Avatars? Is it the replication of these stages of unfoldment? Why?
Have we all come from the One Source? Is our one desire to experience At-One-Ment with that Source?
Is that which is our consciousness forever?
How important is Love in relation to God?
Do we all need guidance? Even Jesus? Does a true guru always show us the guru that is within?
How do we know we are awake? When we will never settle for less than the truth?
Do we need to do whatever is necessary to find our way?
Do you believe temptation is a power, or merely a suggestion?
How could Satan be a separate character from God? Can Love create any concept that would be opposed to the Love of God?
What is the greatest temptation?
So long as I am tempted, am I subject to fear?
Did religion come when man fell away from God's presence?
Does anyone go through initiation alone?
What are the five misconceptions?
4-29-11 Gita 12:45
What purpose does our heart serve?
What is Self-recognition?
How is it that we cannot acquire spiritual qualities?
What is the value of the internal struggle?
When we focus on our weaknesses, why do we not overcome them?
What is depression?
Why do we hold onto qualities even if they are unpleasant?
How do we keep experiencing the grace of the Infinite?
In the midst of difficulty, how can we shift to see we have everything we need?
How do we ever become free of karma?
5-1-11 BEYOND RESURRECTION Luke Ch 24, v 13-34; John Ch 21, v 1-17
In the passages for the day in which Jesus appears to the disciples after His resurrection, has the illusion of death vanished away? Can we die?
How could Jesus get out of the tomb? What could, or might, or must have happened?
What did he already know to allow Him to get out of the tomb?
Do we have to assume He died on the cross for Him to resurrect? Did Jesus die on the cross? Does anyone?
Did He voluntarily surrender His body and remove His spirit from the body?
What happened during the three days?
Do we all find a way to leave the tomb? When we are dead to the world, are we alive in Spirit?
Do we do it alone? Are we here to do it together?
Can we get well if we keep holding onto thoughts of illness?
Do we effect whatever we see as a fact?
Does lack of faith, lack of trust, lack of prayer and lack of meditation prevent us from believing in the power of healing?
Did Jesus need someone else to move the stone from the tomb?
Haven't we removed obstacles from our life?
Do we see ourselves trapped in the tomb?
Is everything available to us all of the time? Can we expand and move out from the linear way of thinking?
Whatever one being has accomplished, do we need to know we all have the same potential?
When we meditate, do we raise our vibration and go through the process of resurrection?
If we want to grow faith, do we need to cultivate appreciation?
Do we participate in the Law of Manifestation on a constant basis?
5-6-11 Psalm 98:4-9
What can we do to change our old song to a new song?
How can we train ourselves to greater Self-expression?
What are old songs all about?
How do we contribute to human misery?
If we have aches and pains, how can we sing a song of healing?
What is transcendent love and why don’t we experience it?
How do we restore the feeling of wholeness?
What is it that allows us to continue flowing with love?
What is the righteous judgment that brings healing?
When does work fulfill our dharma?
5-8-11 DIVINE MOTHERHOOD Luke Ch 7, v 11-17; Matthew Ch 12, v 46-50
In the passages for the day in which Jesus takes pity on a widow and raises her son from the dead for her, and also speaks of defining his family by who does the will of the Father, what do they tell us about whether Jesus loved his mother?
What does Jesus say about motherhood?
Is our whole life preparation for enlightenment?
Does God understand all?
Does a mother indulge us? Can she ever stop being our mother? Is this a great cross or a great blessing?
Is motherhood based on physically bearing a child?
Is Mother's Day about honoring the Divine Mother in all of us, male and female, physically bearing children and not?
Where there is harmony is it easy to unfold God Consciousness?
Can we experience the steadfast love of mothers in the midst of confusion?
Do we have a tremendous debt to Mother Nature?
If we ask, will we receive ample awareness of what we can do to help Mother Earth?
Do we need to develop the Divine Mother idea within us to beautify our hearts?
What happens when we do recognize the Divine Mother within us? Do we then see these qualities in all women, whether bearing children or not?
Can we adopt all of the children of the world without having to possess these children?
If we violate the Law of Oneness, the Law of Divine Love, in that instant do we activate the Law of Karma by freedom of choice?
Will the Power of Love see us through any suffering possible?
5-20-11 Gita 18:46
What is a bad experience?
If we’re totally present to someone’s upset, what happens?
Any time we want to change another, what does this equate to?
How do we surrender the habit of living in fear consciousness?
What is the dilemma with the idea of worship?
When did we begin to descend into the consciousness of alienation?
What did Buddha have to say about the animal of sacrifices?
When we perform our duties as an act of worship, what happens?
When will our self-esteem expand into infinity?
What does our true worth reside in?
5-22-11 THE HOLY SPIRIT Luke Ch 12; v 10-12
In the passage for the day in which the role and power of the Holy Spirit is explained, who is the Son of man?
Is intuitive awareness closer to Source than any translation of the words of the Bible?
When we are "perplexed," is that a signal that something needs to be attended to or updated?
Is "man" a root of "manifestation"?
Why do we "blaspheme" against the body, judge it, and remain aware of its flaws and weaknesses?
Is our awareness of the flaw the problem, or how we choose to use it the issue, whether for deeper understanding or condemnation?
When we criticize it, do we contribute to its health? Or to its weakness?
Can we experience the effects of our thoughts?
Is the Universe love through and through? Is there any axe to grind anywhere?
Do we live in a time when we are able to stop finding fault?
Do we have the ability to change our conditioning by changing our thinking first?
If we go back to something that offends us, is the effect hidden in the cause?
In the passage for the day, is it true that anything can never be forgiven?
What is the Holy Spirit?
How can we blaspheme against the Holy Spirit?
Is the worst offense, or the blaspheme, the refusal to forgive?
Are we holding onto any old complaint or injury? Will that keep us connected to the energy of malevolence?
Can anyone withhold from us the grace of God?
5-27-11 Psalm 99:1-3
What does fear arise from?
How do we transform our unknowingness to knowingness?
How do we transcend relative knowledge?
What is the nature of the Lord that reigns?
What is true reflection?
How is the practice of surrender a solution for peaceful living?
How can we be proactive in aligning with love?
How is inner guidance like a GPS system?
Why do we torture ourselves by hanging onto finite concepts?
If we’re not doing as well as we’d like, what can we ask ourselves?
5-29-11 LEST WE FORGET Bhagavad-Gita Ch 2, v.11-30, Dhammapada Ch 11, v 8-9
When considering the passages for the day discussing death, the reincarnation process, aspects of mourning, and the need to focus on the immortality of the soul and its connection to God, can we use Memorial Day as a gift for us to remember what our journey is all about?
Do we need to tune into our rich reservoir of information to be aware what to do in any situation?
Why would you "outsource" when the resources are within? Are our inner resources ever limited?
Why do we fear that which is inevitable? Does life ever come to an end?
Are we the creator of all of our experiences? Who are "we" who claim credit for this?
How can we hold onto what is ever changing?
Why not find the house of healing within yourself?
When people visit cemeteries, are they worshipping their ancestors?
What is the difference between worshipping and honoring our ancestors?
Can we think of graves as altars when we go to express our appreciation of gifts received?
Is it a reminder that we are connected to those we love?
Are we remembering the souls who have gone on?
Where did they go? Is there an "ongoingness" of life?
Is it important that when it is time to leave here, we leave with a heart ready to go, and with a heart full of life, love, and peace?
Can we luxuriate in the joy of being ourselves?
Is it important not to let the sun set without spending time alone?
Why do we get so lost in that which we are not?
How many put expressing gratitude for all we are given on the "To Do" list?
Is it helpful to let go of whatever hinders us from embracing life and whatever diminishes self-awareness?
Are the enlightened ever deluded by what we call death?
6-5-11 DIVINE SUPERABUNDANCE Luke Ch 12; v 13-21
In the passage for the day, is the purpose of the parable of the rich man acquiring material riches while neglecting his spiritual needs, to awaken us to what we need to know? To awaken us to greater awareness? Or to reawaken us to knowledge covered over by ignorance or by the distractions of matter consciousness?
If we live by the senses, are we spiritually impoverished?
Does Jesus condemn the acquiring of wealth? Or is he really focusing on the underlying issues of greed and avarice?
Do we need to hear the truth repeated over and over to be able to understand it and master it?
What are the truths we need to remember?
Is the universe charitable?
What is the foolishness of this man? That he thought that wealth would help him enjoy eternal happiness?
Is every anguish you experience the birthing of that which has been missing?
What have we forgotten? Do we need to remember our pure spirit of absolute joy, bliss, creativity and self-awareness?
Is the wealthy man foolish because he has invested in that which is perishable?
Is anything that entrenches us more in matter consciousness futile?
If we love what we are doing, are we laying up treasures for God in heaven?
What am I dwelling on in my heart? On what is my mind focused? What do we bring to the altar of the heart?
Do we feel things only come to us with struggle? Does struggle build character? Or only build forgetfulness of the Source?
How can you build anything without struggle? Does the struggle deny that God is in charge?
When we first seek to align with all manifestation, will we be in better shape?
Does whatever I dwell on, determine what I will dwell in?
If I dwell on poverty, fear, jealousy, covetousness, will I live in these feelings?
Is everyone in the presence of God? Do I need to practice consciousness of the presence of God?
Do I develop Love by loving?
When you have God consciousness, do you have superabundance?
6-12-11 HOW TO UNWORRY Luke Ch 12; v 22-32
In light of the beautiful passage for the day in which Jesus describes all that God already takes care of, and therefore it is certain that He will take care of us, how can we let go of our worries? Does worry create more worry?
How do we honor the gift of the teachings?
Could anything come into our present experience if we had not asked for it at some point in our past or present experience or at some level of our awareness?
Do we get what we didn't ask for by not asking for it?
Do we realize or acknowledge that we have worries? When is the last time you worried about something?
Is the problem accumulating things, or when we let our life be controlled by the accumulation of things?
Does the Christ consciousness understand?
In the world of duality, are we constantly alternating between victory and loss, triumph and depression?
When we worry, do we get things done? Or if they are done, are they done correctly or in need of redoing with the proper spiritual attitude?
Can the worry escalate into anxiety? or emotional paralysis? or dejection and depression? Does it become a habit?
Is the basis of worry judgment according to appearances? With worry, are we looking at the greater or the lesser?
Does worry have to do with attachment to the results? attachment to control? attachment to outguess God?
If we dwell in "the sacred place of the most high," have we found a way to unworry?
When we worry about something, do we feel it has the power to interfere with our well-being?
In what areas of our lives are we worried? About jobs, safety of our family, our health, the inevitable, the future, our homes?
Worry seems so much a part of our mind; do we think it is part of us? Is worry really natural?
Is any thought we entertain to worry an act of malpractice, of a necromancer?
Is necromancy entertaining any thought that causes us to feel less than thankful?
If we don't let ourselves experience thankfulness, are we allowing worry to interfere with our health?
Does worry pollute the life stream of consciousness?
If you love yourself enough, is there room for worry in your life? When we have negative emotions, are we not remembering we have nothing to worry about?
When we take personal responsibility for what we project, then do we know the power of projection is within us?
6-19-11 FATHERHOOD OF GOD John Ch 17, v 1-11, & 24-26
In the passages for the day in which Jesus declares his reverence for God and all that God has bestowed upon Him, as Jesus imparts wisdom, does He take the moment to invite self-inquiry?
What do we hear when one says, "Happy Father's Day!"? When does it become a happy father's day?
Are there millions of children who do not know their earthly father? Which is better - to not know the earthly father, or to know one who does you harm through negligence, abuse, or harsh or judgmental treatment?
What does the phrase, "wounded child," mean?
Do we have to find out who our true Father is if we are to heal?
Are our true siblings and parents they that do the work of our Father in heaven?
Do I include or exclude the spiritually attuned within my human family?
Did Jesus take every idea and every concept and expand beyond it? Is Truth now coming into the collective consciousness?
How do we honor the Father? What Father?
In the Lord's prayer, are we all invited to see we share the same Father?
Is it a happy day when you remember who the Father is?
If we wish, "Happy Father's Day!" to our self, what happens?
Is it true what we wish for another becomes part of our own experience?
Is all healing self-healing? Do our inner children need healing?
Do we carry wounds in our hearts? Do we feel we need to prove to the world we are worthy of attention?
If someone doesn't love us, how do we process that? Does the wounded child feel this means, "they don't love me," or "I am doing something wrong?"
To honor the Father, is it essential to heal the wounded child within us?
Do we believe we are not perfect enough to be loved?
Did the collective consciousness write the program, "It's all your fault," and place blame on the wounded child?
Is the chamber of healing your heart? Can the world heal the wounded child? How do we heal the wounded child?
What do they need? Is it to be loved? Is the wounded child in us still angry because it didn't get the gift it wanted?
Are we willing to let go of our wounds or bandage them?
Does it work that way if we have cultivated that emotional pain for 20, 30, 40 years?
That which your father could not give to you, do you have the power to give to yourself?
Are the needs fulfilled by the world or self-love? Are we here to learn to love ourselves?
6-24-11 Gita 18:48
What is our dharma?
If we don’t like our work, what can we do about it?
Why is it that there’s nothing wrong with the work we’re doing?
If we think our work isn’t good enough for us, what can we do?
What’s going on when we feel stressful?
What causes us to see the world as defective?
What is Kriya Yoga and why is it vital to fulfilling our dharma?
How can we go beyond appearance to see perfection?
What is the fulfillment of the law of love?
6-26-11 GRACE ABOUNDING Luke Ch. 12, v. 32-34
In the passage for the day in which Jesus assures the apostles that God will provide for them and for all of us, why did He say to them, "Do not be afraid"?
Is this the voice of the Divine Mother that is so nurturing and caring?
What Grace has brought us to the consciousness of reading this passage today?
Because we have fears, does that mean we need to hold onto them?
When we cannot let go of our fears, is that because of the ego? Does the ego have endless fear programs it can spring on us?
If we are afraid, does it mean we think there is something to fear? Whose fear is it? What is the nature of the fear?
Does anyone have any power over us unless the power comes from God?
Have we been conditioned to believe that there is a power outside of us that is greater than the Power within us?
When the Truth speaks to us, does it ever have a personal agenda?
Has the Father given us the Kingdom?
What do the "affairs of the ego" involve?
How can we shift consciousness so as not to be impacted by the foibles and fears of others?
If we are impatient, what are we taking so seriously as to lose connection with the joy of being?
If a fear comes up, have we already dwelt on it long enough?
Is the cause of our fears that we choose to listen to the voice of ego rather than the voice of God?
What is ever present? Love? or fear?
Can we eliminate fear if we face it on a conscious level as it comes up?
Is there really a power called "evil"? Is there really anything to fear?
If you face something you feel is evil, and walk through it, is it just a shadow? only a creation of ego? If it is not a creation of God, is it therefore not real?
What is there to miss when you practice the presence of God?
Are we withholding the treasures of God by not meditating and practicing the presence of God?
In spite of appearances, are outer conditions temporary? Do we need to let them go?
Is the nature of God total Love? How can we then fear God? When we divorce ourselves from Love, do we then fear God?
Is there a danger in taking scripture literally? Does the passage, "sell all you have," mean instead, "give up your attachments to all you have" ?
If something breaks, is a better alternative response to give thanks for the new item or pattern that will replace it?
By Thy Grace, am I exactly where I need to be for my unfoldment?
7-1-11 Psalm 100:1-3
What do the lands in this psalm represent?
When we are not in a joyful mood, what can we do to shift?
What are we focusing on when we feel the grace of life?
When we focus on unpleasantness what happens?
Why can’t we manifest that which is eternal?
Why are all observations objective?
Why can we never accept misery as a way of life?
Why is it we have no past when we practice the presence of God?
Why is it that someone else is never the source of our problems?
How do we turn our work into joy?
7-3-11 FOREVER FREE Bhagavad-Gita Ch 14, v 22-26,/24-27, Ch 9, the sublime mystery, v.26-28; Ch 18, v62, 65-66
In considering the passages for the day which discuss how to attain freedom, what does "freedom" represent?
Has the voice of freedom called to each of us?
Did the founding fathers hear the voice and answer the call?
Are we all called? Is the difficulty that most of us have trouble hearing and responding, that few of us choose to follow the call?
Is the voice of wisdom our soul, the source of freedom?
Do we get our greatest inspirations from nature and meditation?
What do the stars in the flag represent? What awareness do the colors red, white and blue bring up in you? Can you differentiate the vibrations of each color?
What is the clarion call of the upanishads? To remember who we are?
So long as we are miserable, and full of contradictions and confusion, have we forgotten we are God?
Is inspiration divine thought? Is stillness full of divine thought? Is inspiration the voice of freedom?
Is it our nature to realize we are free? Are we always striving to realize greater freedom?
Do we have to reach a point where judgment of us is unimportant to us?
Are we here to live in joy and the Truth? Here to enjoy the fullness of life and the richness of the universe?
Is the focus charting the course of our self-unfoldment?
Is Krishna Divine Love? Did He come to help us remember who we are?
Are there 4 mental attitudes, 4 types of beings who seek the Divine? Is the first the entrance level where we want relief from suffering?
Is it time to graduate from the entrance level? To stop the belief that we are meant to suffer?
At the entrance level, do we turn to God because we suffer? Because we are unhappy with something in our life?
Why does Arjune experience grief if he has turned his life over to Krishna?
Did Krishna help him to awaken to realize the Truth?
Have I chosen to follow the voice of the Divine, which is calling us to follow ever higher?
Are some of our experiences, though painful, really blessings in disguise?
Is it true that no matter how devastating the experiences of loss, betrayal and suffering, that the more intense the suffering, the more intense our desire for God? Is it important not to want suffering for suffering's sake, but to appreciate what we have been given?
Do experiences come and go? Is anger what we are?
Does freedom from physical pain mean freedom from physical pleasure?
On the second level, did Krishna understand our dilemma? Is Krishna the spirit of loving responsiveness?
Is freedom clinging to things and people? Or is that bondage? The moment we choose freedom over bondage, what changes?
7-10-11 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Luke Ch 12; v 49-59
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus discusses his mission and its importance, to whom does the "I" refer? To the "I" within?
In the passage, to what does the "earth" refer? To all we perceive as manifestations?
What does the "fire" consume? All that is impure? The walls of ignorance? The self-limiting concepts that have kept us living in fear?
Does personal responsibility make it possible for us to move out of the prison of selfishness and self-limitations?
Does baptism refer to initiation into God consciousness? Do many of us live in that consciousness?
Is it hard to know what is false within us? How can we be true to anyone else if we are not true to ourselves?
Do we pray for spiritual consciousness and peace and then do everything to ignore it?
Is there a contradiction between today's passage in which Jesus says He comes to bring divisions with other passages where He talks of coming to bring peace?
Is it important to look at how far we have progressed?
Is there contention within families? Can our mother love us? Is love of God?
Have we disconnected from the Source that is Love?
Have we done anything so terrible to impress or depress God?
If we choose God/Christ Consciousness as our charioteer, will this help us?
Do we shortchange ourselves by thinking less of ourselves than God thinks of us?
Are we God in manifestation? Does life get better and better? The better we think of life, the better does it get?
Do we have to use the sword of spiritual discernment to decapitate every expression that would keep us from Love or self-realization?
Is today's passage about severing karmic ties? Is our personal responsibility to our inner being to live the truth?
Do we need to use the sword of discernment to cut through the illusions of maya?
Why do we know about the weather in the sky, but do not see what these times are all about?
Does the sparing of communities from the predicted destruction from natural disasters show the power of Love and prayer?
In our terror in difficult times, is it important to focus on the solution? Is this what the Christ consciousness within us has the power to do? By focusing not on the problem but the solution, does it let us "gentle it down"?
Can we bring the Holy Breath of Peace within us to redirect the storms to places where they will do no harm?
Do we need positive action to take us out of insecurity and helplessness? Will we know what to do in these times if we don't remember who we are?
7-15-11 Gita 18:49
Why do we use imperfections as a cop out?
What is our imagination?
How can we hold the image of healing, wholeness, and health?
What do we have to overcome to attain wholeness?
What is the ultimate awareness we can have?
What has all struggle from the beginning of time been about?
How can we come into the realization of wholeness?
How do we become free from attachment in all things?
What is the right understanding of our belongings?
How do we free ourselves from our attachments?
How do we develop the consciousness to receive?
Why is it important to meditate in order to move beyond attachment?
7-17-11 FAITHFUL STEWARD Luke Ch 12, v 35-48
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus describes different ways of being a servant, what are the three types of servants?
What does "gird your loins" mean? How many lamps in the passage are there to be lit? What are the lamps?
Does the mind welcome discipline? Is intuition to be argued about?
Is the outside world often too much with us? Is it easy to forget who we are? What is the law of the universe?
What is best to do when we discover that our attachments have brought us grief?
When we sometimes want God to know how much we are suffering, what have we closed off from?
What can interfere with our meditation and self-discipline practices?
If we keep our light burning, stay spiritually focused and participate in daily practice, what happens? What happens if we don't?
What do we do to bring on our own misery? Do we create everything we are experiencing in our life?
What is the effect of the full moon? What does "Guru Purnima" mean?
Does the full moon reflect the sunlight most fully? Is the mind the reflector or the creator of light?
Are we all given what we need for our spiritual awakening? Can we all awake from the slumber of illusion? How?
Where is the guru inside located? What happens if we follow the light of pure consciousness within?
What is problematic in our use of the word "I" in the most limiting way possible?
Where did we get the idea that we depend on someone else for our creativity, expansion and the source of our blissful freedom?
What happens when we feel our happiness depends on someone else? Why is it critical to meditate?
How can we be truly happy? Who says the negative emotions we feel?
What is hidden in the phrase, "I'm unhappy because..."?
What pushes us to the light? What pulls us to the light? What are we doing when we resist change?
If we know the future, do we get impatient to get there and forget about enjoying the present?
Is it unworthy of ourselves to think less of ourselves than God thinks of us?
Is there a delusion that we are not good enough the way God has created us?
If we don't feel the presence of God, what is it that we are thinking or doing that is unloving?
How can we be faithful stewards?
7-24-11 TRUE REPENTANCE Luke Ch 13, v 1-9
In the passage for the day in which Jesus discusses the danger of judging others for their punishments, and the need for patience with the fig tree not bearing fruit in the early years of its growth, what misunderstanding did the priests have?
What does that misunderstanding have to do with the fig tree?
How does the first part connect to the parable of the second part?
What is this all a metaphor for? What happened a year later?
What is the difficulty with repentance versus true repentance?
Where does repentance come from? Where does true repentance come from?
What happens if we don't truly repent?
What is the pitfall in the phrase, "there but for the Grace of God go I"?
Do you believe in accidents? What is the corollary of that belief?
How can total transformation of the mind occur? Why does the word "radical" need to apply?
How much of our life and actions are not pure actions, but reactions and old patterns that we repeat very, very often?
How can things really change in our lives?
What is a widow? What do we have on our house?
How do we live and manage when we feel we have nothing? What kind of thinking is this?
If you are unhappy about any area of your mind, what do you need to look at in your mind?
What concepts are contained in our minds that bring on nervousness, fear, insecurities, and other negative emotions?
How do we justify our anger? What are we misperceiving?
What happens if we repent? How will our growth then be revealed?
Has the world done us wrong? What causes us to react in any situation?
What am I holding onto that prevents me from a more joyful, loving life? Once we determine what this is, what is the next step?
What belief underlies our reactions? Why do we react? What have we forgotten about our part in the drama?
What happens if we don't change our consciousness?
What happens if we believe we are the creators of our experience? Where does everything exist?
Have we felt like victims? How does this knowledge change that for us?
What does complaining do to us?
Do we need to see everything as a manifestation of the Divine? Do we need to use the phrase, "I am willing to see it," if we don't see it at first? Why do we feel so much better after meditation? What technique helps us make the mind clean?
7-31-11 HEALING NOW Luke Ch 13, v 10-17; Bhagavad Gita Ch 3, ACTION, v 6-9
In the first passage for the day in which Jesus heals in the temple and is criticized by the priest, what is the "sacrilege" that Jesus is accused of? Who benefitted from this woman's healing besides her? What is the difference between the letter & the spirit of the law?
Are the priests hypocrites? Why?
In the second passage for the day, which describes control of the senses versus control of the mind, hypocrisy versus wisdom, the importance of freedom from attachment, and "work as worship", what is the guideline for how we can observe the Sabbath every day?
Is it true for every physical condition there is a corresponding mental condition?
Is the physical condition the cause or the effect? Can it show up in multiple ways?
What two questions did Jesus always ask before healing? What components are necessary for healing?
What parts of the conversation in the passage are missing?
What is the biggest stumbling block for our society and its members?
What is the presence of God? What is 'joyful anticipation' and how does it help us?
Why do our expectations not materialize?
What is creative imagination and how does it help?
Can we give up emotions? Why do some try?
How important is the vital engagement of the heart?
What is the pitfall of imagining the worst? What happens if we imagine the best?
How can we create effectively?
Do I have to feel the reality of whatever I intend to experience for it to manifest?
What is clarity? What is its importance?
How can we sharpen our focus until we get 'high definition perception'?
What is the importance of our awareness of the spirit of wholeness?
What do we know about perfection? What is necessary for the reality of perfection?
Have we ever felt emotionally crippled? paralyzed? or so depressed, our physical posture began to conform to the lack of positive emotion?
What happens when we don't love ourselves? What miraculous opportunity does this leave us open to? What does 'Jesus" mean?
What happens when we have unresolved issues within us? When we focus on our lack?
What did the ancients understand about the purpose of the Sabbath?
8-7-11 KINGDOM OF GOD LUKE Ch 13, v 18-21
In the passage for the day in which Jesus describes the kingdom of God by using two parables, what is the importance of the parables he chose for this purpose?
What did Jesus never tell the disciples about the kingdom of God?
How does the kingdom of God relate to each of us in our life?
What is our kingdom? Our domain? Who is the king? What is the authority of the king in our domain?
When we react, are we the king of our domain, or the slave of our thoughts?
How can we experience the bliss of the kingdom? What is its nature?
What are the several meanings of "a better life"?
What are the pitfalls of the game of judgment? When do we persecute ourselves?
What happens to what we focus on?
What happens when we become steadfast to our spiritual journey? What happens when we honor our divinity?
Do we need to be wealthy to get hold of a mustard seed? What does the mustard seed mean? How do we best manage the mustard seed? What is the potential of the mustard seed? How does it manifest?
Is the kingdom of God outside of us or inside of us?
What potential in our consciousness do we wish to manifest? What errors do we make interfering with manifestation due to lack of trust?
When we are aware of lack in any area, what are our options? What is the difference between facts and reality?
What is our potential? How do we reach that potential?
What is nothing? Because we see nothing, does that mean there is nothing there?
What is faith? How does our feeling connect to our faith? What is true belief?
What changes something away from being selfish?
What is necessary for the seed to grow? What are weeds?
What prevents love from manifesting? What prevents us from greater joy, well-being or light heartedness?
Are we letting God's will be done in our earth consciousness? or do we want to be in control?
What is necessary for Divine will to be done? What is God's will for us? What were we taught? Is it God's will for any of us to suffer?
Where does God's will reside? Where does God reside?
How can God's will be other than for our highest good?
Who do we feel is the worst criminal, sinner or person we judge the most? Are we willing to bring God's will into our relationship and perception of that person?
Do we need to see all with the eyes of love? Is there the same potential for growth in the worst person as there is in the mustard seed?
7-3-11 FOREVER FREE Bhagavad-Gita Ch 14, v 22-26,/24-27, Ch 9, the sublime mystery, v.26-28; Ch 18, v62, 65-66
In considering the passages for the day which discuss how to attain freedom, what does "freedom" represent?
Has the voice of freedom called to each of us?
Did the founding fathers hear the voice and answer the call?
Are we all called? Is the difficulty that most of us have trouble hearing and responding, that few of us choose to follow the call?
Is the voice of wisdom our soul, the source of freedom?
Do we get our greatest inspirations from nature and meditation?
What do the stars in the flag represent? What awareness do the colors red, white and blue bring up in you? Can you differentiate the vibrations of each color?
What is the clarion call of the upanishads? To remember who we are?
So long as we are miserable, and full of contradictions and confusion, have we forgotten we are God?
Is inspiration divine thought? Is stillness full of divine thought? Is inspiration the voice of freedom?
Is it our nature to realize we are free? Are we always striving to realize greater freedom?
Do we have to reach a point where judgment of us is unimportant to us?
Are we here to live in joy and the Truth? Here to enjoy the fullness of life and the richness of the universe?
Is the focus charting the course of our self-unfoldment?
Is Krishna Divine Love? Did He come to help us remember who we are?
Are there 4 mental attitudes, 4 types of beings who seek the Divine? Is the first the entrance level where we want relief from suffering?
Is it time to graduate from the entrance level? To stop the belief that we are meant to suffer?
At the entrance level, do we turn to God because we suffer? Because we are unhappy with something in our life?
Why does Arjune experience grief if he has turned his life over to Krishna?
Did Krishna help him to awaken to realize the Truth?
Have I chosen to follow the voice of the Divine, which is calling us to follow ever higher?
Are some of our experiences, though painful, really blessings in disguise?
Is it true that no matter how devastating the experiences of loss, betrayal and suffering, that the more intense the suffering, the more intense our desire for God? Is it important not to want suffering for suffering's sake, but to appreciate what we have been given?
Do experiences come and go? Is anger what we are?
Does freedom from physical pain mean freedom from physical pleasure?
On the second level, did Krishna understand our dilemma? Is Krishna the spirit of loving responsiveness?
Is freedom clinging to things and people? Or is that bondage? The moment we choose freedom over bondage, what changes?
7-10-11 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Luke Ch 12; v 49-59
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus discusses his mission and its importance, to whom does the "I" refer? To the "I" within?
In the passage, to what does the "earth" refer? To all we perceive as manifestations?
What does the "fire" consume? All that is impure? The walls of ignorance? The self-limiting concepts that have kept us living in fear?
Does personal responsibility make it possible for us to move out of the prison of selfishness and self-limitations?
Does baptism refer to initiation into God consciousness? Do many of us live in that consciousness?
Is it hard to know what is false within us? How can we be true to anyone else if we are not true to ourselves?
Do we pray for spiritual consciousness and peace and then do everything to ignore it?
Is there a contradiction between today's passage in which Jesus says He comes to bring divisions with other passages where He talks of coming to bring peace?
Is it important to look at how far we have progressed?
Is there contention within families? Can our mother love us? Is love of God?
Have we disconnected from the Source that is Love?
Have we done anything so terrible to impress or depress God?
If we choose God/Christ Consciousness as our charioteer, will this help us?
Do we shortchange ourselves by thinking less of ourselves than God thinks of us?
Are we God in manifestation? Does life get better and better? The better we think of life, the better does it get?
Do we have to use the sword of spiritual discernment to decapitate every expression that would keep us from Love or self-realization?
Is today's passage about severing karmic ties? Is our personal responsibility to our inner being to live the truth?
Do we need to use the sword of discernment to cut through the illusions of maya?
Why do we know about the weather in the sky, but do not see what these times are all about?
Does the sparing of communities from the predicted destruction from natural disasters show the power of Love and prayer?
In our terror in difficult times, is it important to focus on the solution? Is this what the Christ consciousness within us has the power to do? By focusing not on the problem but the solution, does it let us "gentle it down"?
Can we bring the Holy Breath of Peace within us to redirect the storms to places where they will do no harm?
Do we need positive action to take us out of insecurity and helplessness? Will we know what to do in these times if we don't remember who we are?
Is it important to include everyone in a cloak of love?
What energy do you choose to put into the earth every day?
7-22-11 Psalm 100:5
What are the three activities of God or truths revealed in this psalm?
If we want to be established in the consciousness of the Beloved, what shall we contemplate?
Why is it that our relationship with another is not the cause of our misery?
Why is it that we cannot be satisfied with limited love, me and mine?
What must we do to align with forgiveness?
When someone won’t forgive another, what is operating
Why is it unrighteous to talk about another’s suffering?
What is important to realize about compassion?
What comes forth from the stillness within?
How is it that the world is getting better and better?
7-29-11 Gita: 18:50
What is the goal of life?
What is it we need to do to experience blissful union beyond the mind?
Why is our breath connected with Self-Realization?
What is the difference between judgment and observation?
What requirement must be fulfilled for Self-Realization?
What stands between us and the love for our Self?
What is the gage of how much anger and blame we’ve left behind?
How do we renounce hurt?
How do we renounce misperception?
How do we grow the beliefs we choose to cultivate?
8-7-11 KINGDOM OF GOD LUKE Ch 13, v 18-21
In the passage for the day in which Jesus describes the kingdom of God by using two parables, what is the importance of the parables he chose for this purpose?
What did Jesus never tell the disciples about the kingdom of God?
How does the kingdom of God relate to each of us in our life?
What is our kingdom? Our domain? Who is the king? What is the authority of the king in our domain?
When we react, are we the king of our domain, or the slave of our thoughts?
How can we experience the bliss of the kingdom? What is its nature?
What are the several meanings of "a better life"?
What are the pitfalls of the game of judgment? When do we persecute ourselves?
What happens to what we focus on?
What happens when we become steadfast to our spiritual journey? What happens when we honor our divinity?
Do we need to be wealthy to get hold of a mustard seed? What does the mustard seed mean? How do we best manage the mustard seed? What is the potential of the mustard seed? How does it manifest?
Is the kingdom of God outside of us or inside of us?
What potential in our consciousness do we wish to manifest? What errors do we make interfering with manifestation due to lack of trust?
When we are aware of lack in any area, what are our options? What is the difference between facts and reality?
What is our potential? How do we reach that potential?
What is nothing? Because we see nothing, does that mean there is nothing there?
What is faith? How does our feeling connect to our faith? What is true belief?
What changes something away from being selfish?
What is necessary for the seed to grow? What are weeds?
What prevents love from manifesting? What prevents us from greater joy, well-being or light heartedness?
Are we letting God's will be done in our earth consciousness? or do we want to be in control?
What is necessary for Divine will to be done? What is God's will for us? What were we taught? Is it God's will for any of us to suffer?
Where does God's will reside? Where does God reside?
How can God's will be other than for our highest good?
Who do we feel is the worst criminal, sinner or person we judge the most? Are we willing to bring God's will into our relationship and perception of that person?
Do we need to see all with the eyes of love? Is there the same potential for growth in the worst person as there is in the mustard seed?
8-14-11 GURU'S GRACE Luke Ch. 13, v 22-30
In the passage for the day in which Jesus describes the process of entry into the kingdom of God, what do the towns and cities represent? What is Jesus teaching in the passage? Why?
Where does everything exist?
Can we ever be poor? How do we find the kingdom of God?
Why is the day's message called, "Guru's Grace"? Who is the supreme guru?
What do we lose if we don't turn to the supreme guru?
Are we the ones doing things? What happens if we don't have a center of direction and purpose?
What is the connection between the direction and the goal?
Where is the journey taking place? How many towns do we pass through in the day?
What are the two forms of knowledge? What happens to everything we observe?
What two things can our thoughts bring us? How many states of consciousness are there?
When you let yourself dwell on the problems of others, are we being helpful? If not, why do we keep doing it?
How do we enter the kingdom of God and find peace? What happens when we align with the kingdom?
What is the Guru's Grace? Where is the Guru's Grace? When is the Guru's Grace available to us?
What do we hold onto that hurts us? Do we have a yearning that in spite of all our spiritual darkness, all will be well in the end?
Is our problem the problem itself or our focus on the problem?
Where do we meet all knowledge?
Do we suffer because of what someone else does?
Is it sad, hard or important to let go of ego consciousness?
What happens when we become the devotee of the God of Love?
If we are interested in enlightenment or being a peace maker, where does the path lead?
What is the difference between the path of worldly- mindedness and the path of self-liberation within? What is required? Is it difficult?
Do we find it difficult to detach ourselves from everything that has kept us in bondage?
What states of consciousness are we holding onto?
Do we fear that we have done something so egregious that God cannot forgive us for it?
What old concepts are hidden in our inner belief system?
8-21-11 SPIRITUAL ATTUNEMENT Luke Ch 13, v 30-35
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus describes who enters the kingdom of God and the pitfalls of non-spiritual behavior for Jerusalem, to whom is He speaking?
What does the phrase, "there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last" mean?
Who are seen as the "last"? Why? Who are seen as the "first"? Why?
What new perspective did Jesus bring to the understanding of the kingdom of God and who entered it?
What happens when people struggle to be religious? Can truth be dogmatized or limited?
Is there any return from the law of self-unfoldment?
What are we supposed to behold or be aware of?
Are we love? What does "CIA" mean? Do we have to hold onto what we don't like?
Does obeying the letter of the Lord give you a passport to the kingdom of God?
What happens if we avoid knowing the truth? What do we need to attune ourselves to?
If we want to be attuned to God, what do we need to do? Who are we putting first in our life?
What else do we have but ourselves? Is it selfish to put ourselves first?
What happens if we practice "God and I" thinking? Do we have to put God outside ourselves?
Can you be where you are not?
What is always present? What is divine attunement all about?
What happens when we think anyone is separate from us?
What is thy God? What is your God? What happens if we are not happy with our God version?
What is the real meaning of being "born again"?
What happens if we put religion above God? What happens if we are not putting ourselves first? If we do?
What is the meaning of "know thyself"? How do we know ourselves?
If we judge others, how does that affect our alignment? What falls away when we attune?
How does the ego relate to anger and wounds? What is the badge of heroism for ego consciousness?
What is the most necessary quality to have? What is the principle of selfishness?
How can we enter bliss, harmony and freedom? What is the difference between being in the heart and being in the head?
What is conditioned love? What does it do? What is it based on?
What is the challenge of "love your enemies"? Why does this hurt us if we don't understand it?
What do we have if the whole world leaves?
What and where are our enemies? Where do they die?
Is conditional love an addiction? Are we dependent on it for our security?
What is "ULU"?
Does the love within us originate with someone else? Is the "other" the source of the love we feel for them?
How do you get someone to believe in themselves?
9-4-11 WORK AS WORSHIP Bhagavad-Gita Ch. 4, v. 16-22
In this week's passage, in which Krishna tells Arjuna the true nature of action, work, wisdom and worship, what is described as right and helpful action? What is destructive action?
Is Labor Day, this weekend's holiday, a time of rest? Are we the only ones who work? Does God work?
Did God really rest on the seventh day? If God rested on the seventh day, who took care of God's world?
Is the ego out and about 24/7? What happens when the ego takes over?
What is the mystical perspective on the Genesis story? What is the day of rest?
What are our problems with work? What is our individual work in life? What is your Life's work?
What is our main mission statement? Do we have the freedom to rework it?
Have our thoughts become pests? What happens when we let ourselves be overcome by ego attachments?
Is everyone's nature blissful and divine? Is anyone's "God" better than any other?
What is the strongest power in the universe? Are we all worthy of hearing and knowing the truth?
Is there any end to our divinity and unfoldment?
Where does poverty consciousness come from?
What was the universe born of? What is the attractive power of the universe?
What are we saying when we want to give up?
What are the stumbling blocks to enlightenment? What is the main obstacle for us?
Who is the doer when we are asleep and dreaming or otherwise not thinking?
Do we draw the work to ourselves? Who or what does if not us? Why do we not see what we create?
What actions give us joy? What actions bring us sorrow?
What is the source of our joy? How can we increase our joy? How can we transform our current work to what we would enjoy more?
What happens as long as the ego is the center of our lives?
Why does what gives us pleasure also give us pain?
What role does competition play?
When everyone leaves, what do we have left? What is responsible for our misery?
For every action, what do we need to ask ourselves?
What happens when we remain in victim consciousness?
What happens in meditation? What does meditation do for us?
9-18-11 TEACHINGS OF LORD KRISHNA Bhagavad-Gita Ch 2,v47-48; Ch 4,v10-12; Ch 9,v17-18,26-28; Ch 10,v8-11
In the passages for the day, in which Lord Krishna describes Himself and His role in our lives, what does Krishna teach Arjuna?
Have you ever wondered why we have tough experiences? Are they really a gift? How can that be?
What is the struggle within us always about?
Is it important to ask for support or clarification if we don't understand?
Why is the Holy plain of Kurukshetra called "Holy"?
How can we access what is within to help us manifest what we need?
How does outside recognition relate to inner recognition? How do we gain mastery?
What else does PhD mean besides the traditional meaning?
Does Divine Love ever forget its own? Are we its own?
Who does Arjuna represent? How can someone so successful in the world of illusion fall apart and say, "I don't want to go on"?
If we have to ask, "What do I want?", what are we lacking?
What does Arjuna feel unready to give up?
Is anyone else the cause of our suffering? Does our well-being depend on what anyone thinks of us?
What happened with the hurricane, Irene? Can we modify or change nature? Can predictions be changed?
What generates fear, greed and attachment? What runs the show of our lives? What do we choose to align with?
What changes if we get rid of our attachments? How do we do this?
What happens if we say, "Our life is so hard"?
Do we need to own up to our actions and their effects? What is it all about?
What do we need to do to learn to love? What do we need to do to learn to be spiritual?
What is the big lesson for us with earth changes?
What happens if we commit to Love? As part of this, are we willing to do what is required toward those we have not loved in the past?
What is the difference between clarity and arrogance?
What happens to heart energy if ego energy is dominant? What happens if we forget who we are?
9-25-11 PARABLE ON HUMILITY Luke Ch. 14;v 1-12
In the passage for the day in which Jesus heals on the Sabbath in defiance of the laws, and discusses the need to refrain from over exalting ourselves, does the rule about not healing on the Sabbath have to do with God's law or man's law?
How could they entrap Jesus? Are we talking of a state of mind? In what way?
What is the problem with following the letter of the law without interpretation?
Does it make a difference what day it is if you need healing?
What does the Christ Consciousness always do? Who is in charge of our situations?
What do we do with negative emotions? What happens when we hold onto them? How can we let go of them?
Are we all looking for healing? In what areas do we need healing? When is the time for healing?
How can we handle our belief that physicians don't know enough?
What does "Jesus" mean?
How do we handle our ignorance of the unnaturalness of our negativity?
What is a readily available healing tool?
Are we born with perfection? Why do we need humility?
What is hypocritical humility? Who practices it? Is there a humility based on our inadequacies? Is it helpful?
Can humility be a disguise for fear and the ego? What is the difference between real and false humility?
Do the meek really inherit the earth? Does it always appear that this is the case? What does meek really mean?
Does true humility react to insults? Are we learning to rise above human judgments?
How do I know if I am growing? Where do we start?
What happens when we put God first? What happens when we put the ego first?
How can the ego be put out of business? What is arrogance based on?
Was Jesus happy? Why are there no pictures of Jesus smiling?
When are we happiest? When does fear come?
In the parable told today, what are Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu gods of, and which is the greatest of the three? Why?
What quality in us is the greatest quality? What remains with you when everything else of the world has left?
10-2-11 TRUE DISCIPLESHIP Luke Ch. 14, v.12-15
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus describes who to invite to one's dinner party, why does He say it is important to invite the disadvantaged to the gathering?
How can we honor the importance of those from whom we expect nothing?
What is the problem with inviting the rich to your home?
Have we forgotten who we are? What purpose is there to our lives? What do we need to incorpo-rate into our lives?
What is the problem with expectations? Is there only the present? What happens when we focus on the future or the past?
What happens to our understanding when we have a literal interpretation of the Bible? Is it accu-rate? What does a mystical interpretation tell us? How is it different?
How can we know what is worthy of celebration?
What is poverty consciousness? Do we need to transform it? How can we do that?
Why do we feel compassion for the poor?
Am I my brother's keeper or helper? What is the difference?
Do we live by God's grace? What does that mean? Does God consciousness ever run out?
What is the law of sharing? What is the law of poverty? What is the law of withholding? What are the differences? What are they composed of?
What is the connection with duality?
What happens if we invite Christ to our party? What are the aspects of Christ that would appear?
How do we help the impoverished rise out of their state of consciousness?
How do we keep each other in a state of poverty? Is there poverty where God dwells?
What is mental arthritis? Who has it? How does it affect us?
Are we preoccupied with our limitations? Do we all have blind spots?
What food can you serve that heals?
When the Christ consciousness asks what we want, what do we ask for?
What is the role of a desire for change? Do we wish to entertain or transform?
What is it that we have available to us to help with the improvement of any situation?
Can we grow spiritually if we think that someone else is to blame?
What happens to our intentions if we don't get thanked? What happens to things we worry about?
Do we experience what we send out? How are we blessed?
10-2-11 TRUE DISCIPLESHIP Luke Ch. 14, v.12-15
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus describes who to invite to one's dinner party, why does He say it is important to invite the disadvantaged to the gathering?
How can we honor the importance of those from whom we expect nothing?
What is the problem with inviting the rich to your home?
Have we forgotten who we are? What purpose is there to our lives? What do we need to incorpo-rate into our lives?
What is the problem with expectations? Is there only the present? What happens when we focus on the future or the past?
What happens to our understanding when we have a literal interpretation of the Bible? Is it accu-rate? What does a mystical interpretation tell us? How is it different?
How can we know what is worthy of celebration?
What is poverty consciousness? Do we need to transform it? How can we do that?
Why do we feel compassion for the poor?
Am I my brother's keeper or helper? What is the difference?
Do we live by God's grace? What does that mean? Does God consciousness ever run out?
What is the law of sharing? What is the law of poverty? What is the law of withholding? What are the differences? What are they composed of?
What is the connection with duality?
What happens if we invite Christ to our party? What are the aspects of Christ that would appear?
How do we help the impoverished rise out of their state of consciousness?
How do we keep each other in a state of poverty? Is there poverty where God dwells?
What is mental arthritis? Who has it? How does it affect us?
Are we preoccupied with our limitations? Do we all have blind spots?
What food can you serve that heals?
When the Christ consciousness asks what we want, what do we ask for?
What is the role of a desire for change? Do we wish to entertain or transform?
What is it that we have available to us to help with the improvement of any situation?
Can we grow spiritually if we think that someone else is to blame?
What happens to our intentions if we don't get thanked? What happens to things we worry about?
Do we experience what we send out? How are we blessed?
10-03-11 Psalm 101: 1-3
What is the theme of this psalm?
How do contemplate the joy of the Lord?
How do we stay in the awareness of openness, expansiveness, and joy?
What can we ask someone who’s been cruel, without judging them?
How do we determine what is God’s judgment and what is not?
What do we have to practice to live in a perfect way?
What do we have to look for when there are differences with others?
How is it that the world is getting better and better?
10-9-11 FEAST OF WISDOM Luke Ch 14; v 16-24
In the passage for the day, in which Jesus tells the parable of a man inviting guests to a great supper, the excuses some gave for not coming, and describing those who did arrive, who is the man who gave the great supper?
Are there messages that are not apparent or obvious in the words used by Jesus? Does the mind understand the messages of the heart?
Is trust nurtured when we depend on other people's opinions? If not, how can we nurture trust?
Did Jesus say we had to be religious? Or to know the Truth and that will free us from ignorance?
What is the relationship of "man" to "manifestation"?
Who is the servant in the passage? What is the dynamic of the excuses used by the guests?
What is the "magnetic vibration"? Does guilt have a role in enlightenment?
When is the last time you heard the "Call" and excused yourself for being called away?
What really matters? What are over 8 things that really matter? What calls us away from what really matters?
What keeps us from the Feast of Wisdom?
In the passage, to what does the "field" refer? What does the "five yoke of oxen" refer to? What does the "wife" represent? What does the "dinner" represent?
Is sensory evidence the evidence of truth? Are we sense bound? What is sensation? Are we at-tached to sensory evidence?
What is the difference between fact and truth? Which is more important - what we hear or how we hear?
What is a practical mystic? Are they the only practical people in the world?
Do we realize even having an unkind thought can take us away from our spiritual balance?
If we are materially rich and spiritually poor, what happens? If we are spiritually rich and mate-rially poor, what happens?
What happens with negative sentiment? Can we hold both negative thoughts and goodwill in our hearts at once?
Do we all experience a sense of lack or limitation somewhere on some level? Do we create the negative thinking that sets up the lack and limitation?
What happens to what we give our attention to and dwell on?
Why is the call coming from within? What decrees what we will become?
How can we attend the "Feast of Wisdom"?
10-16-11 TRUE DISCIPLESHIP Luke Ch. 14; v. 25-35
In the passage for the day in which Jesus describes the criteria for discipleship, what did He mean when He said we need to "put aside" our family to be disciples?
What is the simple way to be spiritual? What is necessary if one wants to follow Jesus?
What is the difference between obedience and enlightenment?
Who followed Jesus? Why? What was Jesus concerned that some people saw in His healing and miracles?
Are we ready to do what is necessary to experience radical transformation? Are we willing to transform our minds and let go of everything previously known?
How can we find peace? What holds us back from peace?
What are the 6 -7 requirements to practice true discipleship? What keeps us from becoming dis-ciples?
How can we pay attention to what is available to us to lead us back to the Source?
To what are we now in bondage? What is the key to dealing with this bondage? What is neces-sary to strike delusion down?
Who are our parents? What do they represent? Who are we?
What is the basic tenet of Vedanta and Yoga philosophy?
How can we be in heaven or hell? Can we be in heaven or hell now?
What do we need to do with our painful memories? How can we move forward? What thought patterns hold us back?
Was Jesus speaking literally? Or not? Either way, what interferes with our understanding of His words?
What is the spiritual dimension of unemployment? Where do paychecks come from?
What did Buddha say we are? What have we gained in the past five years that has enriched our understanding?
What can block our progress? How can we become free of attachments? Can we become at-tached to the "image" of someone in our lives?
What do we give birth to? Who are our children to us? What else do we give birth to? Do we have to renounce our attachment to all we have given birth to, both physically and mentally?
Does this apply to everything? Is attachment our issue?
What is the meaning of the section in the passage about the builder? Who is the builder?
What happens when we detach from our original plans, let go of the project and let God have input and follow our inner guidance?
If we lack clarity of what we have, what do we focus on? What are the components of our dream?
What is spiritual creativity? Where does self-doubt come from? What happens to human expec-tations? What are more spiritual expectations?
What is self-discipline? What is inner guidance? What is the voice of Love?
What is change? What is important about the way we look at change?
10-21-11 Gita 18:51
What is required if we want to attain enlightenment?
What is the intellect and how do we develop it?
How do we cultivate spiritual discernment and what happens when we do?
What is the message of the Gita?
What does it mean to be spiritually fit?
How does self-mastery of the senses involve the mind?
What feelings arise within when we pass judgment on ourselves or others?
When something bothers us what can we ask ourselves?
What can we say to someone who is unkind, upset, or confused?
How can we shift what we project on the screen of our consciousness?
10-23-11 REJOICE WITH ME Luke Ch. 15, v. 8-10
In the passage for the day in which a woman loses a coin and rejoices over finding it, what does the woman represent? What do the coins represent?
Is it more important to focus on what we have lost or what we have? Why?
If we cultivate introspection, what do we observe about our experiences?
Do the scriptures belong to all mankind? What is the one scripture? What is the greatest scripture?
What are we parting from? Why?
What inaccuracies have occurred in the representation of Jesus throughout history?
What function does being literal serve in our understanding of scripture?
Where do people usually look for the Truth? Where will the answers actually be found?
Is it possible to waste our life? Why?
In adversarial situations, what do we do? Do we choose the victim role, or the feeling of control by others we blame, or an outside force? What do we omit when we do this?
What is unhappiness? What are you missing in your life? What does "the good old days" mean? What is good about our present days? How do we find the answer?
What is our male aspect? What is our female aspect? How do they affect us and each other?
What is missing in your life that causes you to suffer fear, insecurity and feel threatened? What does it mean?
What is everyone looking for consciously or unconsciously?
What does Buddha's example mean? Did He have to struggle, slave and compete to succeed?
Can we be totally satisfied? Can we be happily unsatisfied? Why?
Is it our nature to keep expanding? What does this depend on?
What did Buddha do? What did His search give both Him and us? What was lost that could be restored to every being?
When will the lost coin be found? What did Buddha find?
What is it when we project our fears and negative thoughts?
What does the enlightened one teach? Can we ever lose our true identity?
How can we rejoice in the midst of trouble? When is it most important to rejoice?
What do we need to do when we see darkness and illness?
What do we always have a reason to give thanks for?
What are the characteristics of the Universe? What does the law of cause and effect mean?
10-28-11 Psalm 101:3
How is it that we are the greatest creators of our life?
What does it mean not to see any wicked thing?
What are the two aspects of Maya?
What is required to be resolved?
What do we have to do to dissolve old patterns and impressions?
What attracts the continuation of old patterns?
How do we let go of bewitching thoughts?
What are we creating by using the word hate?
When do we finally see no evil?
10-30-2011 A FAR COUNTRY Luke Ch. 15; v.11-21
Do we recognize ourselves in the passage for the day of the parable of a man and his two sons, one of whom extravagantly spent his inheritance and had to return home to request work and food from his father?
Can ego lift us up? What can lift us up?
Where is our home? What journey are we on? Where do we think we are going?
Which son in the story do you gravitate toward? What is the older son doing? What is the younger son doing?
When the youngest claims his inheritance, what does that mean for us?
What is the meaning of boundaries? Why don't we celebrate our creativity? What keeps us stuck?
What wealth have we received from our Father? How have we used it?
What is the "far country"? Do we go there? What do we bring with us to it?
Is it our nature to manifest? What are we capable of manifesting?
Is there part of us that lives in fear of change? What are some other parts of us? Do we all have an adventurer part? A creative part?
Are we the creator of everything we experience? What would we like to experience that we are not experiencing? What does asking the question do for us?
Is everything we experience a gift? Why?
What is the difference between religion and spirituality?
What happens when we have the illusion of security? What happens if we try to hold onto what is perishable? What happens when we spend everything and have nothing left?
Does God want us to live in poverty and misery? What happens when we give more value to things than to our fellow beings?
Have you known the feeling that no one is there to help you?
Do we come to this world to be victims or to make a difference? To take or give?
What do the husks in the parable represent?
What is the greatest turning point for our spiritual evolution?
What happens when we depend on others? What is permanent fulfillment?
What is destitution? What is worry? What is involution? What is evolution? How do we come to ourselves?
Is there anything operating outside of our consciousness?
How did the father in the parable know the moment the son came to himself and woke up spiritually?
What makes us aware?
11-6-11 DIVINE INHERITANCE Luke Ch. 15, v.20-32, and Bhagavad-Gita Ch. 9, v. 30-32
In the passage for the day that tells the second half of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, who is the prodigal son? What is he experiencing?
What do you consider is your divine inheritance?
Is rising up and going to the father easy? What does it mean to do this?
What is the journey the son goes on? What does he find? What does this parable symbolize?
What does "getting involved" mean? What does "matter consciousness" feel like?
What is the "good news channel"? How do we receive it? What number is it?
What is the difference between living spiritually and living in ego consciousness?
When our mind is enslaved by sensory attachments, how do we become free?
Is it ever as bad as we think it is? What is the next step? Can we ever sink lower than we have?
What is the dynamic of evolution? What allows growth and expansion?
Do we need to go through agony to awaken? Why do we experience misery?
What can help those who are suffering? Identifying with the suffering? Or is there another way?
What have we learned through our journey? Is there more to life than we have experienced?
What is the advantage of those who are successful?
What does it mean when we think we never have enough? What traps does our mind fall into with this thinking?
What does "the Father" mean? How is that similar or different from "divine love"?
What did Buddha and other teachers come to teach us? Is suffering God's will?
Can we ever be cut off or separated from God, no matter how cut off we feel? Why?
Does divine love retreat from us, or do we retreat from divine love?
How do we find self-realization? Where is the Source?
What does ego consciousness do for us? What does regret do for us? What does complaining mean?
How does poverty consciousness become an addiction? Where do feelings of unworthiness come from?
Where do we originate from? What is the sin of the prodigal son?
Do we feel we are not worthy of God answering our prayers? If we think this, what do we think God is?
What do we forget? What is our first experience of life? Pain or joy?
How do people get to a state of un-forgiveness? Does love have anything to forgive?
In the parable, what does the ring represent? What two meanings do the shoes have? How does this relate to the story of Moses?
What is the symbolism of the fat ox? Where are those who are spiritually dead?
What is the purpose of our experience? Where are we in our evolution? Where are we next to go? Do we slip or revisit?
What does the jealousy of the stay at home brother mean? What is with us always? What is the problem with abundance?
Do we have access to our divine inheritance? What is required to get there?
11-11-11 Psalm 101:5
How does our judgment of another play out in our lives?
How do we learn to bear true witness?
What is the quickest way to get out of the accusatory state?
What is it we’re missing when we’re in an accusatory state of consciousness?
What are we denying when we accuse someone?
What does every moment in our life reflect?
What creates our next experience?
How do we shift to being the observer and then moving beyond our observations?
How can we take charge of our anger?
Who is our neighbor?
11-13-11 BURDEN OF DISHONESTY Luke Ch. 16, v.1-13
In the passage for the day about the dishonest and deceptive steward, what does the rich man's wealth symbolize?
What is a parable? What is this parable about?
How did Christ become enlightened? Do Avatars evolve? Is anyone chosen to be better than anyone else?
What happens when we know who we are?
Why do we want to be suffering when we could be anything?
How does a change from past to present tense change the story?
Is evolution currently accelerated? Did we choose to be here now? Why?
What happens when times get tough?
What is the importance of checking into Spirit or Source daily?
What happens when we are not aligned with the Source? Where does everything come from?
What happens when we lose trust? What do we have access to in our consciousness?
Who is the steward in the parable? Where did the steward's dishonesty come from?
Is there an end to consciousness? For us, what are we stewards of? How can we be good stewards?
How does this parable relate to the story of Adam and Eve?
Are we faithful stewards of the state of our consciousness? What frustrates us in this process?
Who is the rich man, the owner of the estate, in the parable?
What keeps us from focusing on alignment? Who enters the kingdom of God first? Last?
When do we embezzle divine resources?
What do we waste when we dwell on our limitations or negative pursuits?
What was the steward focused on? What happens when we do something to someone else?
Is there accountability in life? Are we willing to accept responsibility for all we have done, voluntarily and involuntarily?
What do we have charge of? What have we done with it? Do we choose our experiences? How?
How do we evolve out of the consciousness of lack? What does loving ourselves mean?
11-20-11 UNFOLDMENT THROUGH GRATITUDE Psalm 95; v. 1-8, Malachi Ch. 3; v. 10
What do the passages for the day that tell of God's gifts to us and sing His praises in gratitude tell us of the importance of thanksgiving?
How can we observe thanksgiving? How can we make thanksgiving part of our daily lives?
Is gratitude a principle of spiritual unfoldment? If so, why do we often miss that aspect of gratitude?
When does gratitude enter your mind? When are you thankful? What does this tell you?
How do we find moderation? When do we know an extreme is an extreme?
What is the extreme of unhappiness? What is the extreme of satisfaction?
What is the role of judgement? What is balance? What is our nature?
How and when is truth revealed? What is another way to think of thankfulness?
How does our method of thanking derive from our belief system?
Why do we feel what is missing from our lives is outside of us?
What is another way to look at expansion? How can we be spiritual and still enjoy the life of this world?
Can we master things without a full understanding of them?
Does the truth set us free? How?
In the phrase, "the bread that is cast upon the water returns to us", what does "the bread" refer to?
If you care for the needy, who is doing it? Why is it important to be clear on this?
How many things in our lives come to us easily that we enjoy?
How many things that come to us with toil and trouble provide joy?
What is true of everything that comes to us?
How can we be open to the concept of oneness? Does God's grace take form? If so, what is that form?
What are the features of the power of thanksgiving?
What is the only way to be free?
What is the importance of developing self-empowerment and self-awareness?
How can our needs be met? Is life meant to be easy? How can this happen?
How can we appreciate all the things we have?
What does it mean to "Let your light shine"?
What happens when we turn to the world to fulfill our needs? What is our real need?
11-27-11 JOYFUL EXPECTANCY Isaiah Ch. 40; v. 1-5,9-11,28-31
How do the passages for the day which sing praises to God, and describe the power and abilities of God, relate to us?
What does Advent mean? What does the green Advent wreath mean?
What does the candle for the first Sunday in Advent mean? Why does it begin the season?
Is life perfect? What is imperfect? Can life be limited or go away?
What is the spiritual counterpart of hope? What is the trouble with the way we use the word, 'hope'?
How can each of us make a difference? How powerful is our light? What can it do?
Who is the light of the world? How many people does it take to change the world?
When is psychology enlightened?
What happens the moment you attend to someone else's needs?
What happens when we complain that our political, medical, financial and other systems are not working?
What is the problem with these systems? What is a house divided against itself?
What can we expect of ourselves? Whom will we serve? What is the importance of the power of choice?
What is our world? Does the thought fill us with hope or despair?
Do we pray for spiritual guidance? What does 'Divine Adventure' mean?
Do we wait for what we want or create what we want? How? Are we being impelled to do better?
What do we have available to us? How do we transform the desert into fertile land?
What happens when we don't appreciate a desert for what it is?
What is it we are looking for? What is your state of consciousness while you are waiting?
What does "let your light shine" mean?
What more do I have within me to offer? What opportunities do we have?
How can we expand our offerings and opportunities? What is the God of Self-Realization?
What reveals the glory of God? What happens when we complain?
What happens if we are not willing to experience greater wisdom and understanding?
What is our expectation? What happens to that?
Where do our experiences come from? What is our role?
Do we focus on what is inside ourselves or what is outside ourselves? What helps us more?
What role do our perceptions play in outcomes? Why is this not always apparent?
What is real? What do we mistake for reality? What happens when we engage in the power of gratitude?
12-4-11 FINDING PEACE Luke Ch. 2; v. 1-7,14 & Bhagavad Gita Ch.2, v. 64-66, 70-71
In the passages for the day, the first telling the story of the birth of Jesus, and the second continuing the discussion of avenues for realizing peace, what do they tell us about ways to achieve peace?
What do the candles of the advent wreath symbolize? What is the meaning especially of the second advent candle?
How powerful are we? Why? Are we the light of the world? Of which world?
What if we were the light of the world? How would that change our perception?
By what light do we perceive anything?
What is an expression of the light we are? What does the light affect?
What is Christ consciousness? What does It speak from?
What is always with us? What world do you live in? What is in it with you?
Do any of us see the world the same way? Where did the world we see come from? Where does it go?
What are the kinds of worlds we see? What affects those worlds? What changes those worlds?
Do we get what we focus on? How do things change? Are things getting better? Worse? How do we know?
How can we let our light shine? What do we so often forget?
What is fear? How does it affect us? What does it mean for us?
What is the importance of the light? What does the contrast help us with?
What does the phrase, "Peace on Earth" mean? Do we doubt it? Command it? Look for it? Want it?
What is the difference between "peace makers" and "peace manifest-ers"? How do we realize peace?
What is peace? What are love and harmony?
What happens when we do not identify with our true nature?
Do peace treaties help with peace? Why? Or why not?
Why do we not have peace in our lives? What holds us back?
Any thoughts that cause problems with us are born of what?
How much difference do we make in the world?
Are we ready to practice what is necessary for peace? What does it take to find peace?
What is the law of manifestation? What role does doubt play? Who is the boss of our creations?
Where does real power come from?
12-11-11 ABIDE IN JOY Luke Ch. 2, v.8-14; John Ch. 16, v.20-24
In the passages for today that describe the Good News that the shepherds in the fields received from the angels of the birth of the Saviour, and the Joy promised to mankind, what does the middle of the night symbolize?
What is a disciple? What is a source of Joy?
What does the third Advent candle symbolize? Why is it pink? What does the evergreen wreath mean?
What are the four stages of spiritual unfoldment?
What does the outer light point to? Where does everything exist?
What do we need to remember? What is the solution to our state of ignorance?
What helps dispel fear of darkness? What helps dispel fear of death?
What is really out of control when things are or seem to be out of control?
What is present in our worst dream state?
What are limiting thoughts? What do we need to do when they appear? What do they produce?
How can we recognize limiting thoughts? What is arrogance?
Can it ever be so bad that there is no solution?
Is the birth of Christ an individual experience? How can this be?
What can we trace all the problems in the world back to?
What happens when we meditate? Where can bliss be found?
What happens when we experience joy? What is the quickest way to experience joy?
What happens the moment when we share joy? What does sharing mean? How can it help us?
What is divinity?
What happens when we are unhappy?
How do we bring good news to another?
12-18-11 ONLY LOVE Isaiah Ch. 40, v.1-5; Matthew Ch. 1, v.18-25; John Ch. 14, v 15 & 21-28
What do the passages for the day that describe the prophecy of the birth of Jesus, its fulfillment, the words Jesus said about loving God, and what that love means, tell us about the power of God and God's love for us?
What does the fourth Sunday in Advent symbolize?
What is the difference between involution and evolution?
When we pray to angels, how does our angle of vision shift?
What is common to all religious traditions?
What is evidence of angelic appearances? What are forms of worship?
Where are we going in our journey of self-unfoldment? Is there a circumference? Why? or Why not?
What is the only voice to listen to? What is the false prophet?
What does the habit of love fit? What does the power of total commitment provide?
Why do the angels know how to help us? What is an angel inspired thought?
What is an avatar? Why did the avatar appear? What does the power of God imply?
What did Jesus have to say about love? What did Jesus say was the greatest commandment?
How does love work? What constitutes our neighbor? What is our nature?
When you desire to experience only love, what happens?
What happens when we want to hold onto negativity?
What is the purpose of incarnation? Is karma important or are our beliefs about karma more important?
Do we need to give up anything for enlightenment?
What does observing our thoughts produce?
What does it mean when we have fun doing what we are doing?
How do we keep a divine commandment? What do we observe if we dwell on divine truths?
What happens when we dwell on any truth?
What does God mean to you? What is the most sublime realization you have ever had?
How can we put love in action? What makes everything worth experiencing and living?
What is the greatest love? What do we need to learn? What are the components of love?
What is the purpose of experience? How can we find enlightenment?
12-24-12 Christmas Eve Service
How can we give joy to the world?
What is the importance of Christmas to each of us mystically, beyond
the historical event?
Did Jesus experience incarnations before being born as Jesus?
Why do we not know we have Christ within us?
What school did Mary the Mother attend?
How was Mary chosen to be the mother of the Avatar?
What is the highest truth that can be voiced?
What is joyful expectancy like?
What is the symbolism and use of gold from the wise men? Of
frankincense? Of myrrh?
What is the sign or the test of Christ-consciousness?
1-6-12 Gita 18:54
What does Brahman signify?
What does Vedanta mean?
How is it that Vedic seers were quantum physicists?
What is the importance of cultivating devotion?
How do we shift from being involved to being evolved in this world?
What is the three-fold nature of Brahman within the pulsation of energy?
Did Jesus suffer on the cross?
What healing questions can we ask ourselves if we are experiencing pain?
How do we cultivate a positive understanding about whatever is going on?
How can we benefit humanity without leaving our room?
1-8-12 WISDOM OF JESUS Matthew Ch.5,6 & 7
In the chapters for today of "the Sermon on the Mount," what does "blessed" mean?
What do we feel would make us happy?
What do we recognize we must do to be happy?
What moments in our lives presented us with spontaneous happiness?
What was going on at those times?
Fill in the blanks- Blessed am I when______ ___ ____ . What are 8 possibilities to fill in the blanks in this sentence?
What are two quick ways to experience happiness?
What makes war impossible?
Today's message was "The Sermon on the Mount," told by Swami in a wonderful way!