Nutshells

Nutshells

Snippets of Pathwork teachings from Pearls, Gems and Bones

THE REAL. CLEAR. SERIES

NUTSHELLS: Daily spiritual insights

Nutshells are short-and-sweet daily spiritual insights, carved from three books in the Real. Clear. collection of spiritual teachings: BONES, GEMS & PEARLS. Meaningful inspirations and memorable phrases are woven together to create a new creation that largely resembles the original form.

The 52 tidbits in Nutshells deliver helpful insights tapped from one of the greatest sources of truth: the Pathwork Guide. Like the acorn that contains the potential for the oak tree, these nuggets of wisdom hold the power to change our whole perspective on life.

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Nutshells: Daily Spiritual Insights

Daily spiritual insights from Pearls

We actually experience pleasure and excitement when we cause suffering and pain, and spread destruction. It’s funny how much we do this, but not ha-ha funny.

“The first and most obvious principle of evil is separation…This includes separation from God as well as from others and from ourselves. It shows up in our cruelty toward others, after which we delude ourselves that somehow we are not to blame. Or we are the victim rather than the perpetrator. We disconnect from where evil lives in us…

We refuse to see that our brother and sister’s pain as unavoidably also our pain. Too often, we ignore this basic truth. And on top of that, we actually experience pleasure and excitement when we cause suffering and pain, and spread destruction. It’s funny how much we do this, but not ha-ha funny…

– From Pearls, Chapter 13: Uncloaking the Three Faces of Evil: Separation, Materialism and Confusion | In a Nutshell

Nutshells: Daily Spiritual Insights

Daily spiritual insights from Gems

The way out of our dollhouse-sized existence is to create a new consciousness within that doesn’t fear change.

“If we hindered the cycles of physical change along the way, by somehow constricting space for physical expansion, atrophy and finally death would occur. We would destroy life. The unseen aspects of an organism—the psychic, spiritual, mental and emotional levels—are no different. Yet humans carry with them a mass image—or a collective hidden belief—that says we should fear change…

This fear of expanding creates a narrow space we must wedge our psyche into…If we are afraid of change, we will atrophy the spiritual muscle we need to develop in order to expand; we’ll box ourselves into a nonmoving state and scarcely breathe in an effort to thwart change. That explains, in a nutshell, the human condition…The way out of our dollhouse-sized existence is to create a new consciousness within that doesn’t fear change—that trusts change as a natural and desirable way to live…”

–From Gems, Chapter 7: Rolling with Change and Overcoming Fear of Death | In a Nutshell

Nutshells: Daily Spiritual Insights

Daily spiritual insights from Bones

Fate is nothing other than the events that occur due to the governing forces of our unconscious. It’s the tiger and we’re the tail.

“We have both a conscious mind—the stuff we know—and an unconscious mind—the stuff we don’t know we know. The unconscious is by far the stronger of the two…The unconscious should be credited with far more than it typically is…It’s what controls our fate…Fate is nothing other than the events that occur due to the governing forces of our unconscious. It’s the tiger and we’re the tail…

The black hole of our unconscious includes our petrified wrong conclusions about life, our destructive patterns of behavior, and our negative emotions caused by our unresolved problems. All this we have stuffed down in there and forgotten about…Our unconscious is a repository for the constructive building blocks of the universe too—unending creativity, utter wisdom, divine truth and love. Yessiree Bob, it’s all in there…

Let’s now learn how to go about interpreting the language of our unconscious in our daily lives…Knowing this particular language will do more for us than knowing a dozen foreign Earth-languages…”

–From Bones, Chapter 15: Learning to Speak the Language of the Unconscious | In a Nutshell