David Robert Ord

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David Robert Ord Quick Facts

Main Areas: Present Moment Awareness, Jesus and Consciousness
Best Sellers: Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ, Lessons in Loving, Is The Bible True, Alligators in an Evening Dress
Career Focus: Author; Speaker; Editorial Director;
Affiliation: Namaste Publishing
Would it help you if you could see from the life of another person what it actually takes to become present, then stay present in each moment of your day?

A lot of us have moments when we are present, but we can’t sustain it throughout our workday and time with our family.

We either drift into thought or we become emotionally reactive to something that upsets us.

Well, there is a historical personage who models for us exactly what presence is and shows us how to become present to the point that it stays with us our whole day through.

But as well as this famous historical individual, there’s also a delightful fictional character, the product of the brilliant insight of the early French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, whose story addresses why we find it so hard to be true to ourselves and so easily lose ourselves in relationships, why we become so reactive to each other, and why it’s so difficult to get along with one another.

This fictional character is The Little Prince, who meets a crashed pilot in the Sahara Desert and introduces him to what it means to live consciously in the state of present-moment awareness—as well as showing him why this changes completely the way we relate to each other.

What amazed me when I first read the story of The Little Prince is the way both his experiences and those of the crashed pilot mirrored my own life. The insights are just so right-on, it’s truly mind-blowing. I really had my eyes opened.

But even more amazing is the way the tale of The Little Prince parallels the experience of the historical personage I have in mind.

Together, these two characters show that if we are going to be conscious in the way we live our life—if we are going to come from real awareness, so that we don’t live dysfunctionally—there are experiences we simply have to go through and cannot escape.

And the beauty of both these stories, the current imaginary character and the historical character, is that they show us exactly how to negotiate the obstacles that arise.

They also explain why the difficulties we encounter in life are actually our friends and not our enemy—and how, once we become true to ourselves, we are at last equipped to get close to each other without all of the usual emotional drama.

If I mention this historical person’s name, most of the world will immediately get the whole wrong idea of what I’m talking about. They’ll think I’m speaking of a religious figure, when I have nothing of the kind in mind.

There was absolutely nothing religious about Jesus of Nazareth, which is why good churchgoing people often couldn’t stand him, whereas those who loved to party, have a good time, and enjoy life—including social outcasts such as prostitutes and people who drank too much—thoroughly appreciated his presence.

I'm persuaded that Jesus is in fact the most misunderstood person in history, precisely because most of us resist being introduced to our true self lest we have to show up in our life for the magnificent person we really are.

We don't want to meet the real Jesus, preferring a religious figure who's more mysterious to us, because we don't want to meet our real self.

The journey of The Little Prince actually helped me understand the story of Jesus in a very different way from how Jesus is usually portrayed. At the same time, Jesus gave me insight into what The Little Prince’s journey is really about.

So deeply did these two stories affect my life that I ended up writing two books—one about how Jesus mirrors our essential being and calls us to awaken to our true self and live in present-moment awareness, the other about how the really difficult, painful times that come into our life are intended to crack open the shell of our false egoic self so that who we really are can at last emerge.

You can get the book Your Forgotten Self right here on this site at a special discounted price or you can obtain it through any book source. The seven-hour audio book on five CDs, Lessons in Loving—A Journey into the Heart, is available only from this website.

I wrote both these books because these two characters, so very different and yet so much the same, changed my life in a way I can't even begin to describe. It's just night and day from the way I used to be.

I invite you to let both Jesus and The Little Prince introduce you to your true self also—and to show you how to bring who you really are into all your relationships.

Other Programs & Highlights

In Your Forgotten Self, David teaches that Jesus isn't essentially different from us but shows us our true childlike essence and how to begin to live from this powerful place within us. His gift is in explaining how the awakening of our own consciousness unify's with the teachings of the Jesus and the bible. Your Forgotten Self helps us move into the practical dimension of living a conscious life, so that in our daily experience we learn to differentiate what's coming from our Christ center and what's coming from ego and its flip side.

Based on the story of The Little Prince, written in 1944 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and still an international bestseller, Lessons in Loving takes us on a journey into our own center where, beneath all of our pain, there exists an unbroken peace, boundless joy, and infinite love.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from David Robert Ord

Quotes from Lessons in Loving

To be Conscious is like having a built in GPS system. All the instructions we require come to us as inner knowing.

Awakening is about rediscovering the delighted and delightful child we were originally, before society stuffed us full of indigestible nonsense that has caused us to endure such compromised lives of conformity and mediocrity.

To Blaze the trail of consciousness requires us to step our of our comfort zone and forge a path that's true to who we are in our deepest being.

It takes a crash in the desert, with no hope of help from anyone else, to awaken us to our forgotten self—the essential being we came into the world to be but that got constricted in our early years by family and society.

Quotes from Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ

For me, God is the ground of all being, the source of everything, incomprehensible to us because we are finite and God is infinite and yet ultimately the most personal reality there is because we participate in God's own being and therefore are manifestations of the divine Presence.

When Jesus talked about the kingdom of God...He was talking about a state of being, a way of living at ease among the joys and sorrows of our world. It is possible, he said, to be as simple and beautiful as the birds of the sky or the lilies of the field, who are always within the eternal now.

To Believe in Jesus is to allow him to become the way you see yourself. You trust that the divine nature in which he participated is also your nature.

It's all a question of focus. Dwell on you inadequacies and you will live inadequately. Live from faith in your Christ Self, and you will express your divine nature. You already are everything you long to be. You always have been. To the degree that you believe it, you will be it.

All of us, without exception, have "missed the mark" when it comes to ourselves—which is exactly what that ancient word "sin" means. It's a term used in archery. You miss the bull's eye. In humans, it means we fail to be the fabulous creatures we are. We fall short of being the reflection of divine glory, which is what we are intended to be.