Your True Self doesn't win in life by overpowering problems, but by revealing they never really existed as you once believed they did.

Have you ever been in the midst of that very personal sense of peace called, "sitting in front of the TV with a nice pizza?" Then the phone rings, or a neighbor drops by, and... boom! Your slice of heaven is replaced with simmering resentment toward the person or event seen as disturbing it.

When we are dominated by any negativity, be it some consuming fear or heated anger, we may think we are in command of ourselves as we rush to judgment or lash out at the world, but a simple question reveals another reality. Who, in his or her right mind, purposely sets themselves on fire? The answer is obvious. No one deliberately defeats one's own best self-interests. This much we all realize...

The more you're willing to see that living within you is something that resists, resents, and rejects your wish to be self-aware at all times -- that wants only to be left alone with what it wants, regardless of the cost to you -- the more ruthless you'll become in your dealings with this dark nature, doing whatever it takes to free yourself from its grip.

Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any condition, or person, outside of yourself is like getting angry at your shoes for being laced too tight. So here is an effective inner life step designed to help you grow and develop greater spiritual strength: No matter what happens, never blame anyone -- or anything -- for the way you feel. Rising above the blame game is the same as learning how to be...

It's an eternal law: everything is always becoming something else; real life is ceaseless transformation expressed through infinite forms. But within us lives the sleeping seed of a celestial Self that alone can see -- in spite of all evidence to the contrary -- nothing really changes.

Seldom do we know a greater need for making a fresh start than in those mind-numbing moments when we find ourselves feeling thrown for a loss. These feelings of loss often leave an unconscious, invisible residue of fear which tends to taint every area of our lives with distasteful timidity, born of the neurotic suspicion that in some way, life is conspiring to take something away from us. Bu...

It is impossible to change the relationship we have with the world around us without changing the relationship we have in ourselves, with ourselves.

Our lives are meant to be bright, noble, and ever ascending. This promise of our true potential is made good in us by fulfilling our possibilities and not through the interminable struggle of trying to prove what is impossible. Most of our sorrows are the stressful offspring of trying to be something we have no real need to be; they are born for attempting to do...

If you have an enemy of any kind, if you shelter recurring resentful thoughts or feelings - however wise your well-considered reason may be - so that you surrender yourself to the embrace of a suffering induced by your own negative considerations...be warned: in this nature is where hatred hides; it abides there, awaiting the incoming tide of some unwanted interaction with life so that it can...

What is resentment if not a sustained form of resistance to the continually refreshed content of some negative impression?...

Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any condition, or person, outside of yourself is like getting angry at your shoes for being laced too tight. Most men and women recognize the need for a healthy balanced diet because good eating habits nourish the body. Good nutrition helps keep us agile and strong. And we also like to learn new skills to expand our interests. Challenging mental activities...