Who we really are, in reality – our True Self – can no more be defined by what once happened to us – be it a day or decade ago -- than can the morning sunrise be measured by the moonlight that paves its way.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

The sooner we remember that there is no power on earth that can hold our True Nature its captive, the sooner are we released from that prison of negative thoughts and feelings that we so often mistake for being the same as ourselves.

It is not our duty to suffer over what will be or won't be -- to live with painful regret or guilt over what was or wasn't. Our soul task is to be responsible for what is -- and to allow this relationship with life to produce what it will. There may or may not be suffering in this order of responsibility but, if there is, it will be transformational as opposed to self-tormenting -- which...

Once we awaken to see that suffering over "who we are not" is one and the same pain as the momentary pleasure of thinking about "who we should be" – then "trying" to become anyone at all simply comes to an end.

The secret purpose of that self-loathing nature in us -- that wants us to suffer today for what we could not do yesterday -- is not there to help us make straight our mistakes, but rather to ensure that we waste the rest of our days struggling to escape the ache of useless regrets. Awake! Detect and reject despair! It is not the guiding light it seems to be, but it is a cold heat that compromi...

Topics covered: All good things come to those for whom the good is all things; Conditions outside of you are not who you are; Events and conditions serve to reveal your consciousness and help you outgrow a level of yourself; We are asked to let go, not to run; The light is meant to show us our darkness; Resistance drives repetition, as it cannot learn; The root of our life is in something Divi...

One indication of making real effort, based on a true spiritual intention, is that even when we fail (with it), whatever regret we may have over our revealed weakness is tempered by an equal measure of realizing how important it is that we never forget what has just happened to us, within us; for now we have seen and experienced, first hand, not just a lower nature whose will determines our da...

Topics covered:  We keep reaching out into the world for what seems to be missing because we are not at peace with ourselves as we are; Whenever we are looking to distract ourselves, there is an unseen hope that we will find a lasting refuge of some kind. We are hoping to find some kind of relief from feelings of dissatisfaction; The nature that feels dissatisfied and incomplete will find ways to create dependency in others so that it can feel momentarily significant.

There can be no spiritual lesson learned from any painful moment when one's suffering is only over the loss of some imagined gain.

Reliving a past pain in the belief that revisiting it will keep you from going through that same suffering again is like throwing money out the window of a moving car so that you won't spend it foolishly later!...

It is your spiritual right to decide what kind of thoughts and feelings are permitted to roam through your consciousness.