No one would agree to the feeling of being pulled apart by anxious thoughts and feelings, that is to say... unless he was first deceived into believing...

Real Life is a miracle unfolding in slow motion. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by the nature of thought whose sleight-of-hand creates and sustains the illusion of passing time...

The Unknowable Source of Peace in real life far exceeds our reach... because it can’t be grasped, let alone taken by hand; it can only be received by a heart that has willingly emptied itself of hope in all things seen...

Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door...

We have but a single thing to do to nurture the soul and, in turn, fulfill our role in the Greater Plan of Creation. Our one true task in Life is to complete the moment as it is given to us to do...

Here is the self-evident, but seldom -- if ever -- admitted reason why we must do the difficult inner work needed for real self-transformation: if we don't rise above our present level...

If you don't know what thought is, you can't possibly know how to think. If you can't think for yourself, your mind will gravitate to, and then identify with the thoughts of someone else...

The only thing 1,000 failed attempts to start life over proves is that we’re setting out from the same old place... mistaking it for the only place there is for us to make a new beginning...

In the competitive and complex worlds of business and science, imagination is critical to the processes of creativity. It serves a valuable and practical purpose. New developments are created by imagining better ways to improve old technologies. Important developments come in increments. Progress moves ahead one step at a time. But in our inner life, we don't want a continuation of *what has...

The often-painful experience of any personal limitation is our awareness of a difference between some higher ideal we feel drawn to actualize... and our (present) inability to fulfill that possibility...

We are not lifted by spontaneous reactions; rather, we are chained to these momentary feelings by our identification with them...

Realized or not... our path (through life) is largely set by unseen parts of ourselves, and we tend to blindly follow wherever they lead. Only the realization of this fact has the power to change the kind of actions we take...