Part I: Some come upon the truth of things only once they've run aground on the reefs of remorse; others long for anchorage in what endures only after the winds of fortune slack off, leaving their sails full of emptiness. But the Wise seek the Truth of themselves aright; they search moment to moment within the tides of their everyday affairs, and never look back to see if their wish to kn...

There lives nothing real in our past -- regardless of how disappointing or painful it may have been -- that can grab us and make us its captive, any more than a dark shadow has the power to keep us from walking into the sunlight.

Everywhere we look, people are concerned with essentially one thing: getting what they want, when they want it, and as fast as possible. The fires that fuel their appetite for this envisioned success create so much smoke that they lose sight of the fact that all they reap for their insistent sowing are the cold ashes of regret raked out of broken relationships. If we are ever to realize the i...

Everywhere we look, people are concerned with essentially one thing: getting what they want, when they want it, and as fast as possible. The fires that fuel their appetite for this envisioned success create so much smoke that they lose sight of the fact that all they reap for their insistent sowing are the cold ashes of regret raked out of broken relationships. If we are ever to realize the i...

Getting negative over how others treat you is the same as mistreating yourself! Stop wasting your life. Wake up and be wise. See dark thoughts and feelings as the lie that they are. Then, instead of suffering their cruel presence within you as proof that someone did you wrong, you'll see these negative states themselves as being the sole cause of your suffering.

There can be no starting place in our lives any truer than what our own awareness of the present moment permits. This friendly fact tells us that our life direction, our actual destiny, is determined by the level of our awareness that attends the full range of each step we take. The next two examples prove this insight beyond the calling of any logic. No one consciously takes a step in haste...

We can't really say that we have learned from our mistakes until we have seen the one great error that follows us through time: the only thing that judges us is our present nature, and not what we may have done in days now past.

Looking to any negative reaction to help you resolve a problem is like jumping out of an airplane and -- after you hit the ground -- pulling the cord to release your parachute!...

All relationships suffer when stagnation sets in; whether in a pond or our personal dealings with others, everything must be continually refreshed in order to realize its true potential. For us this means each re-appearance of some old resentment, fear, or regret, chokes the life out of our chance to love one another, which is our spiritual responsibility. What's so hard for us to understand i...

The secret of higher success is to make impersonal those times when we stumble or fall, whereas to take failure personally is to lose sight of the one Great Lesson that Life would have us learn: there is no "self" to fail (at anything) -- only a certain level of understanding not as yet adequate to the task set before it. To know this truth helps us transcend not only the trials we must face...