Useful Stories From My Teachers-101

One of my life teachers who lives out west hired a carpenter friend of hers to handcraft cabinets for her entire home.  The carpenter lived on some acreage which included his house and a barn he had built which he used as his carpentry studio. 

 One week when the man was out of town, he received a call informing him that his entire barn (studio) had burned to the ground but that his house was spared.  Upon returning to his estate, he reflected out loud to a friend the following.....

"I can finally see the moon from the house again now that the barn is gone.  It's one of the things which made me fall in love with this property to begin with"
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(Bryan)  Too much attachment to material "stuff" or even relationships can blind me to the abstract art and knowledge God places around each and every corner of my life.  I need to "see"  not as a human....but as a spirit would "see".  God seldom speaks to me in english.  How boring it would be.... and small minded of me to expect.... a higher power speaking any language other than the language of enlightened awareness. 

I wish to see the beautiful moons arise from the ashes of my exaggerated...often ego-centered ....attachments to people and things.....