Awakening the power to see past the pain in our present condition is the pre-requisite to transcending it; such inner-sight is to these dark states within us as is the dawn to the night sky that cannot remain in its presence.

Just as a frightening shadow cannot pass away until the form does that casts its scary appearance, neither can we hope to go beyond our own dark inner states until we voluntarily transcend the level of self that gives rise to them.

Anytime you feel the pain that comes with "chewing" over a problem, what you are really feeling is pain chewing on you!

If we only agree to do what's true with the provision that others do it too, then it is not the truth that we serve and, whatever we get from life...we deserve."...

We only repeat whatever defeats us in life when -- instead of realizing the lesson it brings for us to learn -- we give ourselves reasons "why" things are the way they are, and then just go on accordingly.

Confusion and compulsion are secret partners in the pain they produce. Their unseen conspiracy creates the appearance of a "self" that resists seeing its own limitation, and that then seeks -- in desperation -- a way to escape this unwanted encounter with reality by first "suggesting" -- and ultimately embracing -- some form of compulsive behavior.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

There is no worse, nor more terrifying moment for those who are always in a hurry than to suddenly find themselves with nothing left to do!...

Like ripples in a pond, all wishes for wholeness take their form and radiate out from one irreplaceable longing: to be one with God's life. To understand this fact, that the true possibility of life - it's perfect power and peace - lies "hidden" in the field of the Presence...

Since the active principle of the present moment ceaselessly refreshes itself -- so that all is ever-renewed in the now -- there exists nothing in Reality with the power to hold someone captive... anymore than standing in a fountain of water constitutes becoming a prisoner of its flow.

Whenever we collide with any event, and then run away from the scene of the crash, we lose the opportunity to discover that the only collisions we have in life are with what we have yet to understand about ourselves.

Hoping that somehow your experience of life will change, even as you repeat the same actions day in and day out, is like hoping that your reflection in the mirror will change before you do!...