David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

89. Progress in Spiritual Life

To be denied personal existence is frightening, but you must face it and find your identity with the totality of life. The motive matters supremely. Q: What are the signs of progress in spiritual life?M: Freedom from anxiety; a sense of ease and joy; deep peace within and abundant energy without. It is the simple…
Escape the Captain Quarters
88. Knowledge by the Mind, is not True Knowledge

Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. The catch is in your mind, which insists on seeing duality where there is none. You can question the description and the meaning, but not the event itself. You can know reality only when you are astonished.
Barbie Cake

Ximena came over to have an American Girl part with Kate–they watched Kip, drank tea, and had a general good time. The also made an amazing Barbie Cake!
Jacks New Doctors Office

It looks like Jack’s main doctor may have an office at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute on the UCI campus. this is 10 minutes from our house as opposed to the 90 minute trip to UCLA. Very Good News. The area is very nice & there is a Einsten’s bagel on the drive home. And…
87. Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover

This is the end of Yoga — to realise independence. What is, can cease to be; what is not, can come to be; but what neither is nor is not, but on which being and non-being depend, is unassailable Words create words, reality is silent.
Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus Art from Spoilers and Swag
86. The Unknown is the Home of the Real

You ask questions when you are in trouble. Will, affection, bliss, striving and enjoying are so deeply tainted with the personal, that they cannot be trusted. Real surrender means doing nothing, unless prompted by your Guru. Finding them is easy, what is difficult is to trust them and take full advantage of their advice and…
85. ‘I am’: The Foundation of all Experience

Awareness is itself and does not change with the event You know the real by being real In awareness you are facing facts and reality is fond of facts.
84. Your Goal is Your Guru

Leave others alone for some time and examine yourself Take him to himself. the Guru’s role is only to instruct and encourage; It is madness, but it is a deliberate madness.