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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

What you’re looking for is what you are -Jean Klein

Jean Klein

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in life when our compensatory activities, the accumulation of money, learning and objects, leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. We may find ourselves asking, ‘Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?’ Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions. What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.

Jean Klein

I Am

Review Herb Fitch, skiles -rjs

Book reviews, Herb Fitch, Robin Starbuck

Dr. Robin Starbuck5.0 out of 5 starsVerified PurchaseReviewed in the United States on July 26, 2019This is HEALING at its finest!f you’re ready for the meat and potatoes of Healing, this book is just right for you. Herb Fitch meticulously shows us the many, many issues and pitfalls that we face when we determine to commit ourselves fully to the mission of healing. His method of dealing with said issues is par excellence!
Herb’s use of the words “We must…” is uncanny! We must follow the steps laid down, we must reassert the truth until the error backs down … or we do! LOL. And we must expect nothing less than full healing.
I’m also most humbly grateful to Bill Skiles for his tireless efforts to give us this treasure trove of Herb Fitch in such an elegant, orderly and easily accessible format.
Dr. Robin Starbuck Thank you for your review.

Brian Ganley5.0 out of 5 starsReviewed in the United States on September 16, 2013Physician Heal ThyselfIn this series Herb Fitch guides the reader to an understanding of true healing. Firstly, he is shown that in order to do successful healing work, the notion of mental practice has to be abandoned to give way to the realization that there is nothing in the objective world to be considered. The reader is taught that the primal task is to find one’s true nature as exemplified by Jesus the Christ. Further,as he continues through the pages,it is revealed how absent healing is possible. Understanding this enables all readers to be healing practitioners.

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Die every moment instantaneously -JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Questioner: I have been listening to you for fifty years. You have said that one has to die every moment. This is more real to me now than it has ever been.


Krishnamurti: I understand, Sir. Must you listen to the speaker for fifty years and at the end of it you understand what he says? Does it take time? Or do you see the beauty of something instantly and therefore it is? Now why do you and others take time over all this? Why must you have many years to understand a very simple thing? And it is very simple, I assure you. It only becomes complex in explanation, but the fact is extraordinarily simple. Why doesn’t one see the simplicity and the truth and the beauty of it instantly – and then the whole phenomenon of life changes? Why? Is it because we are so heavily conditioned? And if you are so heavily conditioned, can’t you see that conditioning instantly, or must you peel it off like an onion, layer after layer? Is it that one is lazy, indolent, indifferent, caught in one’s own problem? If you are caught in one problem, that problem is not separate from the rest of the problems, they are all interrelated. If you take one problem whether it is sex, relationship, or loneliness, whatever it is – go to the very end of it. But because you can’t do it, you have to listen to somebody for fifty years! Are you going to say it takes you fifty years to look at those mountains?
The Awakening of IntelligenceJiddu Krishnamurti

God is working out ITS life as our individual CONSCIOUSNESS -JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

God is working out Its life as our life. God is individual life. God is working out Its life in what appears to be the form of our lives.

God is working out Its life as our individual consciousness. God is working out Its plan in us and through us.

In this knowledge we relax and become beholders. It is no longer our life: It is God’s life unfolding individually.

God appears on earth as individual you and me, and as we step aside, we begin to see God shining through.

The harmonies that we experience are in the degree of our knowing that this is God’s life.

It is only your life or my life when we take hold of it and try to manipulate it or do something with it or try to make something of it.

Rather should we become beholders of God fulfilling Itself on earth, God appearing individually on earth, God incarnate on earth.

God actually is living on this earth as you and as me.

When we desire only a God-experience, heaven itself will open and pour itself out at our feet in the form of every kind of good.

Let us be expectant of a Christ- experience, of a God-experience, expectant of some kind of a spiritual impulse felt within. That is the demonstration we are seeking.

THE INFINITE WAY
Practicing the Presence
Chapter 2
Joel S. Goldsmith

Beyond erotic love -rjs

Robin Starbuck

BEYOND-EROTIC LOVE
In the physical realm
It’s nearly impossible
To fathom the depths of
I Am, Consciousness.
Titillating rapturous
Fleeting peaks pale
To fully grasp the Permanent.

Never collapsing, unrequited,
Whimsical, spent or sadly gone
But a sublime knowing infinite
Eternal happening now to
Kiss the joy as it stays
Alive, forever, in conscious rays.

That place-less place
Where awareness resides
Never sneaks off on fleeting hayrides!
Experiences that seem to be
Bodily in origin are Separate
Superimposed Self clinging for life.

Hunger not for the unreal
The latest trap within another.
Infinite Consciousness IS Now
As it has always been, unfettered.
The very “I” that never yearns –
Ever fullfilled, truly Passionate Love.

DrRobinStarbuck 2017

I’m nobody! Who are you?

Authors

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog

Pride has got to go! -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Do not try to accumulate more knowledge. Rather, empty yourself out of the knowledge that you already have. It is knowledge that you have that’s keeping you back from your self-realization. It is all your beliefs, your preconceived ideas, your concepts. And every time you read a book, you add on more and more concepts.
You learn more words. You become a knower of words. Whereas, the truth is in reverse. You have to know less and less words. You have to do less and less reading, less and less debating, less and less arguing. It all has to go!

Robert Adams