Part 1 We resist not what we see as being fearful, but rather what fear sees whenever we look at our life through its eyes. And the reason this fearful nature trembles, as it does, resisting its own dark vision, is so that it can feel unsuited to meet the very situation that it has imagined. Part 2 We are never overpowered by a negative reaction, regardless how strong it may s...

Part 1 Dying to one's self, which is one and the same as spiritual rebirth, is not attained by an imagined grace wherein -- by some "miracle" -- we call ourselves "reborn;" no, resurrection happens, moment by moment, when we marry our willingness to witness what is revealed about us with a celestial Awareness by whose Light alone are we made self-aware. Then... "It is done." **Part 2...

The seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem. It is your reaction that is fearful. This is why if you will become conscious of your condition instead of afraid of it, you will change forever your relationship with fear. To be consciously afraid means that you know you are frightened, but at the same time you know that these very fears, as real as they may seem, a...

This interior life that we are supposed to have access to and live within is ostensibly kept from us because of this nature that we live from that wants to know what it is, what it's to do, how it's to do it – at all costs, all the time – and so we miss the truth that what we are from moment to moment is what determines our experience of the moment we are in...

We go through life looking for approval from others. This unending search for approval runs deep inside of us as we unknowingly nurture a relationship with the idea that if we could just be accepted, then little by little we would come to know who we are. We actually buy into the notion that if we could get enough people to approve of us, then this ache in our soul that is always trying to fig...

How do we deal with destructive people we live with, and those destructive parts of ourselves, once we have unknowingly invited them into our lives? How do we react to a sudden wind which blows sand in our eyes? (From student correspondence)...

Why do I continue to get angry, and why do I always feel so justified in my anger even though it always makes me feel terrible at a later time? Is it important to defend yourself with an angry person, or at least point out to him how poorly he is behaving? When I look at myself, it seems that my most prevalent emotion is anger. It's always there, and I feel powerless to stop my raging thoughts...

The following are examples of ways in which one might use the "Be Thou" prayer following one's work with any of the exercises in double attention. Each of the following eight simple prayers is to be felt by the whole of you, one by one, as you address their corresponding parts in the order shown here. As you become aware of...

What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life. The treasure of our heart both measures and determines our wealth, or our inner poverty. But not everything we love in life loves us back. Not everything we serve serves us as we imagine. Only the Divine, the light of Truth, never fails us... never. There's only one reason why we ever find ourselves confused, depressed, angry with s...

Identifying with resistance to any moment the mind points to as a painful problem of some kind... is the only real problem there is in that moment. To see the fact of this -- which is the purpose of all true spiritual teachings -- is the end of looking for any kind of power to protect, or otherwise restore some paradise imagined lost...

Exercise given after Guy Finley's 1/6/13 talk 'Be the One Prayer That is Always Answered.' When you feel the onset of any painful pattern, ask without thinking about it -- what am I filling myself with? What is coming into me that I'm identified with? Then work to become actively passive to it. Make the prayer for watchfulness. By being watchful of what you are filling yourself with -- instead...

The solution to all stress and tension is a mind that is made aware of itself as being the producer of that stress and tension. Stress and tension are products of an unaware, unawake mind wrestling with its own contents to free itself from struggle. Relief from that tension is not to struggle with more things or to become stronger than what stresses you, but to recognize the relationship between how you are involved in your own mind because of that...