Only in our conscious awareness of a personal limitation -- through our ability to sense the presence of any indwelling negative, or otherwise self-denigrating thought or feeling -- is realized the strength we need to die to an unconscious nature that, otherwise... lives to ensure that we accept its dark and limited view of life as our own.

We can realize all we are meant to see -- and to be, accordingly -- only as we allow self-awareness to serve its highest purpose in life. Which is to do what? To reveal what is yet realized about (our) consciousness, that it might be reconciled and re-integrated, reborn, as part of a greater whole.

Learning what it means to take a deliberate step back from our reactions to life is the same as learning to walk past those parts of us that want us to believe our only choices in that moment are those presented to us from the content of these reactions.

There is no such thing as a "bad day"...only our inability to see the Good in it.

Before we are truly free to stop and 'smell the roses' -- to know and to share in the beauty of what is Timeless and True -- we must first learn what it means to stop and 'see' the neurosis... and then step out of the dream of this lower nature within whose dark realm we sleep.

There is no tension, anxiety, or dissatisfaction inherent in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for you to be in more than one place at a time, doing more than one thing at a time.

The pressure behind the momentum inherent in any imaginary 'train of thought' is never really obvious until reality 'interferes' with, or derails that train. These collisions -- and the prerequisite 'end of the line' for the self that is identified with its imagined destination -- are usually expressed in fits of anger, fear, disbelief, or depression.

All negative emotions, but especially anger, are the offspring of one dark state...a frustrated desire that would rather set fire to the object, person, or condition seen as being at fault, then turn around and see itself for what it is in reality: the unseen source of its own suffering.

It's widely believed that psychological pain is a natural response to encountering an unwanted moment, but the true - and secret - source of this pain is an unseen conflict inherent in our present level of consciousness itself; the truth is that the "self" that suffers this pain is revealed by unwanted conditions - not created by them.

Only through our willingness to be made aware of all that we are -- high and low, light and dark -- will we ever come to realize the perfect freedom now lying dormant in our own celestial possibilities.

Freedom is not created, which means it cannot be destroyed any more than the onset of night destroys the light of the sun; and we are never "nearer" this true freedom than when we remember the truth of this fact in the middle of some fear.

Only consistent, persistent effort can create the special conditions needed by those who seek the higher Life to shatter the illusion of (their) limited spiritual possibilities.