Here is an exercise to help you take the first step up and away from self-punishing feelings. This exercise is called: Is This What I Really Want? You do not have to accept any inner condition that compromises your happiness. Read over the next sentence several times before proceeding further. It is never right to feel wrong no matter how right you may think you are to be feeling that wa...
Whenever we can remember that we would rather smile about what life brings us than suffer over it -- that our natural preference is happiness, not hurtfulness -- then in such moments of being mindful of what we love most . . . can't we also strive to remember how much better it is, for everyone, to brighten the life of another rather than to darken it in our forgetfulness?...
The only truly "happy ending" is to know that Real Life is without a beginning.
The one who, given the least, knows the greatest contentment in life -- who is able to find the highest good in the lowliest of things -- must be considered the most fortunate of us all.
To be a spiritual super hero is not about seeing through walls. Or jumping over tall buildings. Or stopping speeding trains. It's about something much closer to your inner home -- and ultimately much more significant for your happiness and well-being. Hidden within you is a secret source of power you have not tapped into... but that offers you new authority over yourself and...
If knowledge alone were enough to fill the empty heart, then all of the ideas with which we have filled ourselves -- about happiness, love, and contentment -- would have long ago brought an end to our seeking. See the ocean: it does not run after its own waves, as it knows they must return to rest in her depths. And so it is for us: whether we speak of joy, peace, strength, or love itself --...
If we wish to find peace we must understand something of its life. Here are a few such facts: Peace is the natural radiation of a living Now; it is one with that Light whose life is the eternal present itself, even as the emanations of light and warmth are one with the sun from which they radiate. If our intuition can perceive that the above ideas are based in truth, then we should be naturall...
No anxious state exists apart from the illusion that the security, happiness, and wholeness you long for exists somewhere outside of you -- "in a time to come." Then why do we go on embracing anxious thoughts and feelings that do nothing but steal from us our love of life? The surprising answer to this question is the same as opening the door to a life free of anxious thoughts and feelings. W...