Show me the person who asks the least from him or herself – who wishes to do only what must be done to get through their day – and I'll show you a fledgling soul that denies herself, daily, the possibility of knowing just how much the Divine would gladly give to her if only she would learn to ask.

Look closely for all of the inner gold locked within the wisdom of the following fact. Your extra efforts here will pay off handsomely. If you can't see some thought or feeling as it goes through you, then you don't have the choice whether to be that thought or feeling or not. So, before we can choose not to compromise ourselves, we must first become acutely aware of those thoughts of our...

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to consciously change your posture while eating; Taking the easy way; Bearing the pain vs. paining the bear; Intention leads to a glimpse, and a glimpse strengthens the intention; Deliberately creating conditions under which you are guaranteed to see into mechanical behavior; When you really understand something, there's no "you" apart from that...

There is never a good reason to go along with feeling bad about yourself, or to be embittered toward life.

Your True Self is untouchable by any dark thought or feeling, much in the same way as the sun has no shadows within or around it.

The unseen contradiction in hating any given moment of life is that what we actually hate in such a moment is the way that we have consented to feel about it.

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Its form first appears as an agent of conversion that collects sunlight....

Topics covered: Conscious pain is sensitivity, unconscious pain makes you a dullard; We have pain with other people because we're afraid of consequence; You're being manipulated inwardly; Do the best you know to do and then drop any afterthoughts about it; Discouragement is the shadow of self-judgment; Meaning is the integrated story of mind, body, and heart...

The sorrow and conflict we see everywhere in the world can never come to an end until we see that its cause lives on in us as an unchecked desire to avoid dealing with the sorrow we breed.

We can either be one with all that is changing in life, or we can remain in the dream that we live apart from these changes and continue fighting with them struggling on in the vain hope that we’ll find the peace we seek somewhere on the battlefield.

The ache of any dark moment -- of any pain that makes life feel pointless -- is best reconciled by this revelation, and its implied action: yours is always the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its pain, nor its attending sense of despair belongs to who you really are.

I am constantly feeling overwhelmed by all the different demands on my time. It seems that I live out each day trying to "keep my head above water." This inevitably leads to discouragement that I will ever succeed at anything. I am feeling overwhelmed by sadness and a sense of futility. I just cannot seem to move out of this negative state because the pain feels so real to me. What inner act...