The Narrowing Path: Walking the Spiritual Walk

We are at James Allen's 6th step overall but his 4th in the Discipline of our Speech! We talked about Levity and Irreverent Speech and their importance when we are pursuing a Virtuous and Truthful life! This lets us be better friends, better company, and have better conversation!

Step 5 is about that desire we get to be mean and insulting towards one another! It is never an appropriate to be calling names and to be malicious with our words, and try to evoke a negative emotions from others. Our speech should ALWAYS be Useful, Necessary, Pure, and True!

Gossip and Idle Conversation are the topic of the next step in James Allen's path to a Higher Life and Spiritual Growth! This is a staple of todays entertainment and has become the common style of conversation we have with people from day to day. Take a listen and find out how we should carry ourselves, and our words!

We are now talking about the Vices of Tongue and the Discipline of Speech! The 3rd step suggested by Allen is to address the vicious practice of Slander! It fosters a selfish, insincere, cruel, and untrustworthy heart and character and essential to remove to make Spiritual progress!

This is step 2 and the last step of the discipline of the body in James Allen's book, Out From The Heart! This step goes into a problem much of the western world still struggles with and the gluttonous behaviors behind it! Lets fix this relationship we have with food!

This is the first of the 10 Steps given by James Allen, and the first in the disciplines of the body, titled Indolence. We discuss why it is important and how it manifests in the body and what we need to do about it and the direction we need to take!

This is the first reading from the 5th chapter of the book Out From The Heart by James Allen! The chapter is called First Steps in the Higher Life, and it is going to give us some clear instructions on how to pursue a Spiritual way of living, and tells us where the problem originates! Lets get started on this next adventure together!

This is the final reading from the chapter Absolute Love from the book What is the Oxford Group? written by a laymen with a pen. A simply fantastic way to end this section and chapter and brings in the importance of seeing with eyes of Absolute Love and the Peace the comes from a heart filled with Absolute Love. Don't miss the introduction to the next book at the end!

Is Absolute Love a practice and way of life that can work on the world stage? Absolutely! We talk about why it does and why it is the only true way to make progress and have a good a loving world!

It is our responsibility to bring into this world Absolute Love! And to do it even when it is inconvenient, and the world might not know how to handle it! Because if we don't, what else is going to happen?

The fifth installment of Absolute Love and we are talking about some big picture topics in this one that are extremely relevant for todays world! Prison systems to homelessness to social programs. Absolute Love is the solution!

Functioning from Absolute Love is the key to personal growth, but also it is key for growth as a household, a community, and a country! We have to make sure we are facing our problems honestly, and taking action from a place of Absolute Love. Stop avoiding our problems and stop blaming to world!

Here we go with the third reading from Absolute Love from What is the Oxford Group?! A phenomenal reading about really asking ourselves why we are taking the actions we are taking, is it for self-serving and selfish reasons? or is it because it is the right thing to do regardless of return? Questions we should be asking ourselves daily.

This is Part 2 of the chapter Absolute Love from What is the Oxford Group? text! We talked about humility and acknowledging and seeing the best in ourselves and using that to help others, and the necessity it is to continue to practice this to share with each other this principle of Absolute Love!

We start the 4th Absolute today from What is the Oxford Group! The last and the most important absolute is Absolute Love! This chapter is packed with timeless wisdom of transformation and having an experience with Absolute Love in our lives, and why it is the Absolute that molds all others!

We dig into Jealousy, Envy, Pride, and all forms of Selfishness in this second half. Accompanied by an ominous warning of idolizing our identity! We talk about the things that we have placed above our higher power and worshipping the wrong things!

On to the 3rd Absolute in the book "What is the Oxford Group?' by the Layman with a Notebook! Absolute Unselfishness is a principle that I have found to been a keystone of my spiritual journey through my selfish, self-centered, and self-seeking ways! Giving from the heart is the only way this works!

The second part of Absolute Purity from the book What is the Oxford Group? We go into what where impurity has started to take hold 100 years ago, and how it has progressed to today as well! Also, some words on how to pursue this principle today in the midst of so much temptation.

We touch on the second Absolute of the Oxford Group, Absolute Purity! This one definitely is a hot topic to many people! Purity of thought and body are not enough, it is Purity of Conduct in all areas of our lives that is required!

Bringing in Absolute Honesty into Business and Religion! We finish up the reading from What is the Oxford Group? and Absolute Honesty! We discuss some great questions to ask ourselves the chapter brings up!

Absolutely Honesty! The first absolute in the book What is the Oxford group, and this first half is packed with insights about this practice! Absolute Honesty in all our affairs means honesty with ourselves and this does not mean brutal honesty, we have to use kindliness and commonsense. Honesty should be spiritually constructive!

What is the Oxford Group? is the book we are reading next! This is the introduction to the Four Absolutes of the Oxford Group, and we also dive into the origin of them from Robert Speers book The Principles of Jesus. Get excited to hear about Absolute Honesty, Absolute Purity, Absolute Unselfishness, and, of course, Absolute Love!

This is the final portion of As a Man Thinketh, the third chapter in Emmet Fox's Sermon on The Mount! A great summation of the entire chapter and book and the importance of why it is more that just changing actions, it is changing your thoughts and your heart!

This is the fourth section of the chapter As a Man Thinketh, in Emmet Fox's Sermon On the Mount! This is a section that talks about addressing things as soon as they crop up, instead of letting the problem grow! We also talk about how this helps us heal from the past and change and grow in our lives!

This is the 3rd portion of the chapter As A Man Thinketh from Emmet Fox's Sermon On the Mount! A great chapter diving into the reason for spiritual growth and a shift in consciousness and conduct! As well as a deep dive into anger in all its forms and the danger of it!