Have you ever wondered why our best intentions and the ability to accomplish them seem to live in two different universes? We intend not to do something mean-spirited or otherwise self-defeating. Yet that is often just what we do. Then we ask, "What happened... how could we?" Yet, for all of our questioning, this mystery remains unsolved. See if the following insight doesn't shed much-needed...

In one respect, at the heart of our predicament as a species of beings -- because it negatively impacts our possibilities -- is that we do not see the big picture. For most of us, the big picture is our problem, our heavy heart, our irritation with somebody else, or our own sense of inadequacy. The big picture is the weight of our past. And that's not the big picture at all. That is a self-pitying picture. It has nothing to do with what it is that we need to understand.

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

The next time some hostile state takes you over, see that something foreign to your True Nature has imposed itself on you and taken over your life.

Part 1 The more clearly we can see that racing toward a pleasure imagined is the same as running away from the possibility of knowing real peace, the sooner we will realize there is no peace in pleasure alone; while the pleasure of being at peace with oneself is all that one really needs in order to be happy and whole. Part 2 Here's the most important thing to remember whenever yo...

Here is a very simple set of six steps leading to a special order of higher self-command. The more you study and practice the insights that follow, the sooner will appear in you the presence of a whole new kind of self-command that never ceases to perfect itself, moment to moment, no matter what challenge life brings to your door. Step 1: Begin by realizing that your heightened awareness of a...

Your conscious participation in inner exercises, such as these five practices, is the only way to awaken the will you need so that one day you never have to answer to any anxiety again!...

Higher self-knowledge empowers you to realize the better, brighter life you've always wanted! The following four key lessons are taken from Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time. Use their insights to help you let go of self-limiting patterns such as stress and anxiety in favor of a new order of consciousness that is the cornerstone of energy, clarity, and deep abiding love. --- Any confidenc...

It isn't this world that threatens or disturbs us. We are dominated by our own thoughts and feelings. We are taken over by our own reactions. This is painful for us because our original nature, our True Self, longs to be free and unencumbered by self-limiting, self-defeating, compulsive thoughts and feelings. The problem is, at our present undeveloped level, we believe that another person...

We are created and each of us is intended to discover the truth of ourselves within ourselves. Our lives -- and all of our relationships as revealed in the present moment -- are the ground we must plow. These soils are seeded with our intention to be kind and true to one another, to give up our selfish ways, and to willingly embrace whatever life lessons we need to further our inner developmen...

Topics covered: Complete action has to involve remembering yourself; A sleeping person meets moments with a predetermined action; There are parts of you that can't live in higher realms; Having a question thrown back at you is an invitation for you to find the answer within yourself; The teacher represents another order of understanding that you already have in you; No school, no hope; Real un...

Have you ever fallen down in a relationship? Fallen down when someone cut you off on the freeway? Fallen down when sudden economic news came at work? Fallen down when a thought revisited you about what mother or father didn't say, or what was taken from you by someone who promised you something and gave you another? Why do we have to fall down? When we...