Painful tension is unconscious chronic resistance (to life). This means our suffering isn’t created by any difficult condition unfolding outside of us; rather it’s a dark effect of identifying with an unconscious self that believes the only way to deal with unwanted moments is by not wanting them!

Any time we dream of a time when we’ll become whole, we miss seeing two truths: first, imagined destinations lose their luster the nearer we get to them. And when we’re in a dream, we can’t see the nature of what is Real...

Learn to be still and listen: the less you have to say about life, the more Life will speak to you, and start telling you things that ears can't hear, showing you things the eyes can't see, and taking you new places beyond anything you can imagine.

Topics covered: Informal discussion with Guy Finley.

Thought, along with its incessant activity -- that we commonly consider as “knowledge” -- is a kind of dark Lego block; (it is) constantly building, only to be compelled to repair its own flawed creations. But...

Our greatest gift -- the heart and soul of our Divine possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but that we are able to discern -- consciously -- the difference between one order of Love...

Any form of (psychological) suffering that looks back into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn’t just useless, it’s wasted. Here is the real “secret” of starting over...

If seeking -- even realizing -- the consolation of some comfort had the power to placate our appetite for pleasure, or if running from a fear was the way to throw off and escape its power over us... then surely, we would have realized this kind of peace a long, long time ago.

There are as many memory-paved roads promising a new life as there are old thoughts trying once again to escape the consequences of themselves. The tragedy is that every road built by memory eventually circles back to the same familiar destination, because the traveler has never changed.

It's not the unwanted moment that limits our possibilities, but rather that we meet it from a limited part of us; where, without our knowing it, an unconscious nature has already decided...

If you are among the chosen few, the Almighty will prove your pride to be pointless; but, if you're among the truly fortunate ones -- who choose to be chosen -- you will be forever thankful to the Divine for showing you the truth of this unthinkable revelation...

There can be no reconciliation with (painful) karma until we enter it understanding the following truth: whatever sacrifice is asked of us to release our suffering serves a higher purpose than can be known by the parts of us thus called to realize them...