The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. Don't try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from...
It's a simple, beautiful truth: Resentment hurts. Forgiveness heals. In all cases. No matter what. The problem is that sometimes it's really hard to forgive. There is a part of our mind that loves to hold on to painful thoughts and feelings -- even though they aren't good for us. It's not our fault that our minds have been conditioned to work this way, but now that we know what's g...
Part 1 Pollution, fraud, war, greed -- whatever and wherever the waste we see -- virtually every problem in our world today has its invisible root in the insatiable act of trying to escape ourselves. Part 2 You can no more run out of truths to discover about yourself than it's possible to count the stars in a midnight sky.
The only thing we really "win" in any temporary victory over life, that's paid for by agreeing to be angry, aggressive, or otherwise ache, is this dark and unseen guarantee: We will live to fight another day but, for this personal "prize," lose -- little by little -- the possibility of ever knowing a true and eternal peace.
There are those who will tell you why it is wise to never forget the pain of the past . . . but if you look closely at the anger, sorrow, and bitterness that has hardened their faces, then you will also see why learning to forgive is the better of the two paths.
The one who dares to go beyond what he thinks he can do will always meet a point where he has a choice to either return from where he has just come, or to remain where he is...in a world where he is without power. And yet, if he will only linger there long enough, if only he will stay true to his wish to be (made) new -- he will be given whatever power he needs to succeed where he is, a powe...