The true measure of one's strength is not determined by his or her drive, assertiveness, or even his willingness to suffer for the sake of some worldly desire. Instead it is found in the degree to which one will agree to enter into the struggle between the indwelling light and darkness.

To see that the places where we feel stuck in life are really secret passageways -- provided for us to gain vital insight into our own greater potential -- is to no longer perceive these hurdles as a hindrance to success in life. In fact, once we learn to welcome whatever challenges us, we stand at the threshold of a new order of our own being, where never again will we feel ourselves to be a...

To be undaunted in one's spiritual search does not mean undefeated -- only that one's love of truth outweighs the fear of failure, ensuring that whatever stands in one's way soon shows itself to be the Way itself.

The mind has a natural longing to explore itself and to understand its own possibilities. But this same mind will look at people that it sees at being better than itself, and it will say that there is no point to exploring any further since it will not be possible to match what others have achieved. The mind that decides that there is no point has succeeded only in hurting itself. As our mind...

Part 1 No evil can be done to me save for those moments when -- enmeshed in a forgetfulness not my own -- I can't remember the Good. Part 2 The pain of a thousand failed attempts to remember oneself, to put what is true before all else, not only disappears in the flash of each success, but that same light lingers, grows, and eventually comes to outshine the return of any shadow of...

In time, life makes momentary rulers of us all; but only the one who learns to rule himself loses nothing when kingdoms fade away, as they must!...

We should count as most valuable any day where, in some small way, we are awake enough to catch our own wrong thinking working to make us its victim.

Classroom Talk: 1/19/2003 - Just as winter yields to the onset of spring, as surely does the moon submit to the sun, so too are we created to give ourselves to that Greater Life that alone can make us evergreen and fill us with life-giving Light.

Unless our “productivity” in life serves to increase our soul’s receptivity to the living Light – then all that we make for ourselves is an emptiness that passing time never fails to reveal.

True spiritual principles fail to free us because we call on them for the wrong purpose at the wrong time. Such principles are not for our protection, but to help us see, first hand, that there's no such "self" as we've imagined is in danger. Higher principles are not meant...

Every inspired thought -- each new insight that points to the heights of what we might yet become -- serves to enlarge the mind that conceives it. And the grand discovery of that mind touched by any such truth is that within this breaking light is found nothing less than the endlessness of its own possibilities.

Like Salmon headed back upstream, Geese flying south, migrating Wildebeest crossing some played-out plain; all depart out without knowing why... or to where they are being drawn. Many never spawn, welcome a warming sun, nor reach the shelter and safety of the other side; and yet, each and every one of these lives -- seemingly forfeit -- is celestially marked as a success for simply hearing...