No unwanted experience of life will ever be “over” for us until we’re inwardly awake enough... to get over wishing that it was.

Anytime you feel the need to stand in the healing Light of the Divine -- and then act to honor that wish -- you will realize a miracle: you'll see that you are already in it...

New, true self-knowledge re-orders the world we see because, for one thing, the way we experience each moment of life is inseparable from how we understand it...

Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment...

The more any thought pushes you to run toward a time of some anticipated rest, the more you should work to slow down to see the following truth: with one hand, an unconscious self points to a “peace just ahead,” even as its other hand is stirring up some form of anxiety that you might not get there!

Whenever we kneel to the temptation of some consoling indulgence, or struggle to acquire a power to protect us from a fear... we yield to, and serve the pleasure of a darkened desire that has promised, once again, to save us from (our) pain...

The only thing a thousand failed attempts to find the peace we seek proves is this: some unknown part of us -- we've mistaken as being us -- keeps us looking in all the wrong places...

Our first action -- regardless of circumstance -- must be to give our complete attention to all we are being given to see, and to be... accordingly...

Conscious persistence transforms unconscious resistance into Revelation...

Only as we run out of ways to explain our pain to ourselves do we come to realize the true source of that suffering; a revelation that includes the shocking fact that whatever keeps giving us the reasons for this pain... is inseparable from its unwanted, yet unabated continuation.

Useless resistance feeds useless suffering, even as useless suffering feeds useless resistance; but it is we who -- in our ignorance of this unseen relationship -- are consumed in the endless service of an unconscious nature that cares for nothing other than its own continuity...

It's impossible to let go of any painful moment until we lose interest in the troubled sense of self that we are deriving from it...