All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

Feeling hurt needs separate self

WHEN YOU FEEL HURT
due to another’s cruel attack
of rage, vitriol, sarcasm, mockery
who or what is it that feels the pain?

It’s the separated self!
But, is that you? The real you?
You’re still feeling hurt and angry,
but who is the ‘you’ that is feeling so?

The separate self is non-existent!!!
You do need to see this clearly though
because that was the only base
for your suffering.

With nothing for anger to attach itself to –
because the false belief of a self separate from God is no longer accepted
– this must be your firm recognition.

Healing Realm of God

THE HEALING REALM OF GOD
When you come into the presence
of Christ, there is only God.
Germs and disease, discord and fear
are nowhere to be found.
Do you really think this is the same
dimension that forbade walking on water?
Multiplying food, walking through walls –
all perfectly natural in the
Healing Realm Of God.

Futile exasperation

In the Spiritual realm,
all is perfection as
we have the mind of Christ.
But in the merely mental realm
There’s so much darkness,
selfishness and fear.
Both realms are closer to us
than our very breathing:
and so we flip back and forth.
in futile exasperation.
We cannot hold onto both realms
simultaneously and sanely
although we seem to think we do.

Happy, joy-filled Life is God

SOMETIMES A FEELING
Is indicative of whether a person
Has understood a spiritual statement
Correctly, or not.
For example “I no longer live.
My Father lives through me and
I just go along for the ride!”
If one “feels” like they’re giving up
Living their own creative,
Joy – filled life –
They’ve entirely missed the point.
That happy, joy-filled, creative Life
Is God.

Self (God) – awareness

OUR SELF (GOD) – AWARENESS
Knows itself by being itself:
Self-illuminating, Self-knowing,
Self-aware.
This is our knowing of our experiences.
By, in, through, and as Self.
Awareness is irreducible,
Indestructible.
Self-aware (God) isn’t known by
Another mind.
Being itself, it knows itself.
We, too, simply need to BE
In our awareness.
Much like attention and direction
Which Emanate FROM ourself
As light comes From the sun.
To KNOW our Self
We have to BE our Self.
Regard the “I” that I am
As being aware that I am.
And empty of anything other than itself.
So in order to know anything
About anything
You need to know the nature
Of the knower.
Therefore an investigation into
Our own true nature
Is hardly an egotistical one
But the highest and most divinely
Orchestrated Godlike one.
Everything we know is a reflection
Of the nature of that which knows it.
If we think we’re a temporal body-mind
Everything we know is
An extrapolation of that belief.
The ultimate Science then
Is the Science of Consciousness.

Dealing with feelings

Are you having a helluva time reining in some unfortunate feelings you find yourself caught up in far too often?
Do you belittle your own sweet self for indulging yet again in stuff you’ve thoroughly dealt with many times?
Would you like to quit the whole kit ‘n caboodle and just be free … but can’t?
Well, I have wonderful, wonderful news for you!! Take a diametrically opposite approach. Here’s how:
You already love God with your whole heart, right? There’s precious little you wouldn’t do to be in His presence day and night, right?
How about this – next time those unwanted thoughts come a calling, look at them and say “Hey, I can even live with these unwanted thoughts for the rest of my life and still be happy – it’s a very small price to pay to be free! The “thoughts” come and hey they’re not so bad! They come again and they’re a little less bad. And again but not quite as often. In lay language, they no longer have a leg to stand on.
They’re actually interfering not one iota anymore because quite frankly you haven’t been resisting them. Don’t even start resisting the last vestiges of them now: don’t mock them or try to push them out. Just realize you’ve suddenly grown tremendously in stature and essence. God’s bounty of love has exploded on the inside of you and it’s getting all over everyone who comes into your eager consciousness.

Resist not evil