Resisting the revelation of any existing limitation is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim...

In each moment of life we must choose to take the upward path, or we lose the opportunity to rise above the parts of ourselves that like to fall down.

Topics discussed: Why are we so quick to hurt each other over the smallest things; Is a revelation which takes place hours after a disturbance a true revelation; What does it mean to 'sit' with a disturbance -- and how does that look from an interior perspective; Is the question of whether or not there is a God even important, or is the way I live and behave in life that's more important; What...

Love doesn't resist or resent anything; it knows and sees the secret unity in all it beholds. Light doesn't fear shadows; it gently transforms them into open space.

What hurts, what's painful and pressurized, isn't the event that you fear: It's being full of fear that hurts.

Dark clouds above or around us ought to remind us of the sun behind them, and not draw us into resenting or fearing the shadows they cast over us...

Life is not "equal opportunity." It never has been, and never will be. That is the nature of this world, and resenting the reality of it does nothing but destroy those filled with such anger. However...

Things go wrong in life. They just do. And sometimes downturns feel like they'll never get back to right-side up. Life is like that. So what! What we have been given is not what makes us who we are: the true measure of our soul's success is what we make with what we are given.

Part I: Be encouraged by this truth and then do the inner work to realize the freedom it holds for you: Life itself never stands in our way. It never intends to hold us down. If something is seen by us as restricting our way, then, instead of backing away in resentment from what amounts to a vision of life provided for us by our own thickened thoughts about what we cannot be, let us turn our a...

Question: Your teachings say that making demands and having expectations just sets us up for trouble. I know it's true. I always plan how other people should act and how things should turn out, but they never do what I expect, and then I become angry and disappointed. I sense that I am causing all my own pain. If I could just learn to want for myself what life wants for me maybe I wouldn't...

Real compassion lies in our ability to remember that any angry, resentful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that is never satisfied.