There is an endless hole in the heart of most of us; a pit that demands our faithful daily service and that causes us, in our compulsion to fill it, to be pitiless towards those who stand in the way of this endless ambition. Most of us will spend our lives as slaves to this psychic abyss, driven in one form or another to satisfy in ourselves what can only be satisfied by our continuing struggl...

Wanting to be free of anything because it troubles you is a form of ambition, because the assumption behind the ambition is that I have the power and the authority to shut this down. And you have neither power nor authority - what you have is a small gift from God that will allow you to see what ambition does to tear apart your soul.

Topics covered: "It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions." -- Vernon Howard; The attempt to avoid suffering is an ambition. The attempt to avoid the experience of yourself is an ambition; Our daily wishes are rooted in the imagination of a time to come in which we will not be in the pain that we are in now; What human beings presently call "freedom" involves a time to come...

Topics covered: new business venture, try something new, success, ambition...

Topics covered: desire, ambition, impatience, patience, innocence, insight, safety, protection, wisdom...

Topics covered: levels, levels of consciousness, divided mind, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, ambition, ambitious, emptiness, disappointment, karma, peace, quiet mind...

Our fears and worries, our ambitions make something of us, don't they? The fact is, everything makes something of us because there's something in us that makes of it what is does, which is the real meaning of the old expression: a tempest in a teapot.

Cycling of vanity with life-in-vain goes on until you see the cost of a self-filling self. Then you commence on the good work of giving yourself up.

The futility of ambition hides behind the pain of false pride... save for those inevitable, inescapable moments of seeing how we have labored for a "treasure chest" to come that was empty, barren in the same moment of its imagined conception.

Part 1 Until we learn to love what is Good, moment-to-moment – more than we want to be seen as (being) good – fear will remain our constant companion. Part 2 All forms of ambition are to either promote, provide for, or otherwise protect "self".

Growing pains are required; they are inescapable for anyone who wishes to try on the larger soul. For something greater to be born, the lesser must pass. On the other hand, nothing is more useless than continually suffering the level of self that basks in bitterness, broken dreams, and the painful ambition that attends the idea of trying to become something special.

There are no shortcuts to stillness. There is no trying to be empty; with almost no exception, effort is ambition... and though it is full of becoming, it is empty of Being. The darkness of (spiritual) emptiness is inseparable from the Light of awareness by whose grace we are given to see the unthinkable: it is impossible to fill ourselves.