Love Others as I Love Myself... NOPE!

What if we've misunderstood one of the most familiar teachings of Jesus?

For generations, we've been told to "love your neighbor as yourself." But what happens when the self doing the loving is fragmented by fear, rejection, people-pleasing, or self-abandonment?

In this episode of The Temple of the Human Heart, we explore the difference between loving from a wound and loving from wholeness. Through the Temple lens, we'll journey through Leviticus 19:18 and Mark 12:31 to discover that Jesus wasn't simply giving us a command—he was inviting us to transformation.

As we seek the Kingdom within and return to ourselves, what was fragmented begins to gather again. From that place of wholeness, love is no longer driven by fear or the need to be chosen. It becomes the natural overflow of a heart that remembers its divine identity.

Seek first the Kingdom within. As you return to yourself, what was fragmented begins to gather again.

Awaken. Re-Member. Return.

What if the miracle of feeding the five thousand wasn't really about bread?

In this Temple session, Yisra'el Apriale explores John 6:1–14 through the lenses of history, symbolism, psychology, awakening, and return. Together, we examine the shift from scarcity to possibility, from focusing on what is missing to recognizing what is already present.

The crowd saw hunger. Philip saw lack. A child offered what he had. Jesus revealed a different way of seeing.

This episode invites you to consider how often we postpone our purpose, healing, or transformation because we believe we don't have enough. Through the Temple lens, the first miracle may not have been multiplication at all—it may have been the moment someone stopped counting what was absent and offered what was already in their hands.

If you've ever felt like you weren't enough, didn't have enough, or were waiting for something outside of yourself before you could begin, this message is for you.

Seek first the kingdom within, and as you return to yourself, what was fragmented begins to gather again.

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What does it really mean to "seek first the kingdom"?

For years, Yisra'el Apriale wrestled with that question. After hearing Matthew 6:33 in a Bible study, she left excited, believing she had discovered the key to receiving everything she had been praying for. Then a simple question stopped her in her tracks:

What is the kingdom, and how do I seek it?

That question launched a journey that would span nearly two decades.

In this Temple session, we explore Jesus' teaching on the Kingdom Within, the difference between seeking external validation and discovering inner truth, and how returning to yourself transforms your identity and expands your capacity to hold what you've been asking for.

Perhaps the kingdom is not a distant destination.

Perhaps it has been within you all along.

Seek first the kingdom within. As you return to yourself, what was fragmented begins to gather again.

Temple of the Human Heart — Season One: Awakening and Return.

In this week's Temple session, we explore The Great Forgetting—the moment we become separated from ourselves.

Through trauma, expectations, rejection, religion, family systems, and the need for acceptance, many of us learn who we must become to survive. Over time, the masks, roles, and responsibilities can become so familiar that we forget who we are beneath them.

Using the story of the Prodigal Son and the wisdom of the Gospel of Thomas, this message invites us to consider a different possibility:

What if the greatest human problem is not that we are broken?

What if we have simply forgotten?

Join Yisra'el Apriale as we explore remembrance, identity, self-worth, and the journey back to the kingdom within.

Seek first the kingdom within. As you return to yourself, what was fragmented begins to gather again.

Temple of the Human Heart — Season One: Awakening and Return.

Why does the Temple of the Human Heart exist?

In this deeply personal episode, Yisra'el Apriale shares the story behind the Temple, the wilderness journey that followed leaving religion, and the awakening that emerged from more than 25 years of questioning, studying, searching, and returning.

Together we explore the foundational scriptures that guide this work, including "The Kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21), "Seek first the kingdom" (Matthew 6:33), and the powerful moment when the prodigal son "came to himself" (Luke 15:17).

This is a conversation about awakening, remembrance, Sophia, Christ, spiritual transformation, and the journey back to the self. If you have ever questioned what you were taught, felt lost in the wilderness, or sensed there was something more waiting within you, this message is for you.

Seek the kingdom within, and as you return to yourself, what was fragmented begins to gather again.

Temple of the Human Heart with Yisra'el Apriale.

In this Temple session, we explore a different perspective on divine timing, identity, and restoration. What if divine timing is not about waiting on God, but about becoming the version of yourself capable of holding what you have been asking for? We journey through Matthew 6:33, Romans 12:2, and the story of Job through a Temple lens, uncovering how fragmentation, survival patterns, and inherited identities can separate us from our authentic selves.

Together we examine what it means to "seek first the kingdom within" and how returning to yourself allows what has been fragmented to begin gathering again. We explore Job not simply as a story of suffering and reward, but as a story of awakening — moving from hearing to seeing, from borrowed understanding to lived truth.

If you have ever felt delayed, stuck, disconnected, or as though life was happening to you rather than through you, this session is an invitation to pause and ask a deeper question: Who am I becoming while I wait?

Because perhaps what you're waiting for is also waiting for you.

Temple of the Human Heart
Love is the Doctrine. Compassion is the Practice. Awakening is the Work.

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In this Temple session, Yisra’El Apriale explores the deeper spiritual meaning behind Luke 15:17 — “And when he came to himself.” Through the teachings of Christ, the Apocryphon of John, and Romans 12:2, this message examines how many people lose themselves through survival, conditioning, religion, trauma, and performance. This sermon is a call to awaken from false identity, reconnect with the authentic self, and understand the deeper meaning of “the kingdom within.” A reflective teaching on remembrance, transformation, and returning home spiritually, emotionally, and internally.

What if the thing you spent your entire life searching for was never outside of you to begin with?

In this Temple of the Human Heart teaching, Yisra’el Apriale explores the connection between “Seek ye first the kingdom…” and “The kingdom of God is within you,” uncovering a deeper message about awakening, self-reconnection, and healing from spiritual disconnection. This is a conversation for anyone who has walked away from religion, questioned what they were taught, or felt exhausted by performance-based spirituality.

Tonight’s message explores:

• returning to yourself after indoctrination
• why many people feel spiritually disconnected
• the difference between fear and awakening
• the prodigal son as a story of return
• reconnecting with the divine within

This is not about perfection.
It is about remembrance.

Love is the doctrine.
Compassion is the practice.
Awakening is the work.

Temple of the Human Heart