There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever. After all, if anxious thoughts and feelings had any power to deliver us to a place or time where peace awaits, don't you think we'd have gotten there by now? Let there be no mistake here: *When it comes to being in a hurry, what difference does it make how fast y...

Once higher self-understanding is restored to us, the painful problems that are caused by its absence effortlessly disappear.

The Living Light never shows us anything in ourselves that it hasn't already started to change for us.

The more we imagine a fearless life created by conditions outside of us, the more compelled we feel to try and control those same conditions.

The foundation of self-observation is a higher self-awareness that puts you in direct contact with a new and superior Intelligence, a silent wisdom that immediately goes to work in your favor, knowing exactly what to do with all that passes before it.

What happens in the moment where life throws something at you, or nothing goes as you had planned? You know what happens. Instant negativity! Unhappiness over what is unwanted ruins the day. Why? Because now you're resisting the event, wanting nothing to do with it. And how many possibilities do you have in such moments when you resist life like this? None... except to grow more and more n...

You have the Light to detect, dismiss, and to transcend the limiting influences of painful negative states such as doubt, worry, hatred, anger, and fear.

Something has always lived within us that has accomplished every good we have ever known, but this presence has been blocked from our understanding by the choked, cloudy vision we have accepted as the substance of our fulfillment. We have been blinded to this exquisite, life-giving nature through our involvement with what presently comes first in our lives: the selfish thinker and its legion o...

When you begin to doubt everything you believe about your suffering, you will see that you never had to remain in the path of those destructive storms at all.

How can we begin the process of transcending our own limiting self-centered love to come into a fully conscious and impersonal one? One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path is that what we love does not love us. We are filled all the time with powerful feelings and emotions that seem to lift or otherwise provide purpose and self-worth. It is not too much to say th...

Every person knows what it feels like to be carried off by an anxious state, so you decide: when some anxiety comes along and takes over your life, are you an awake, inwardly centered person or are you an unconscious, outwardly driven man or woman? Which are you? That you're outwardly directed is pretty obvious. Why? Because that anxious state could not exist without your false belief that who...

Clearly there is no peace in trying to forget you, so perhaps the answer to this affliction lies in refusing to accept a breath that doesn't take your name into my heart. Although I admit there is still some confusion as to the exact gain in this prescription, nevertheless there is some evidence of wisdom in it, and in that there is hope. For instance, of late I've learned that my mind and my...