One thing is certain: whether in our waking life, or in the dreams that visit our evening's rest, thoughts and feelings fill our every present moment. But just because you can feel or sense all of their diverse characteristics -- such as worry, fear, impatience, courage, or compulsiveness -- doesn't make the "you" that experiences these movements real -- any more than standing under the ca...

I sometimes receive letters from people who are angered by statements I make concerning fear and how another possible response is always open to us, regardless of the situation. For example, a scathing comment came to my attention from a woman who had read the following statement of mine: "That seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem. It is your reaction that is fea...

There is a very distinct reason why the work of remembering oneself serves as the very foundation, the heart of spiritual self-liberation. It is very easy for us to forget what it is that we want from life. For instance, one can have an all-consuming desire to acquire some trinket or toy, or even a new relationship that -- "this time" -- will bring an end to one's loneliness. But as we have a...

The proof that every moment - including the most painful of them - is unlimited in its Divine possibility is that one soul perishes for the fear of them, while another (soul) is perfected, and liberated by the same. Simply put, that means that every single moment of our life holds within it, if you will, a kind of fork in the road. "I came upon a fork in the road and I took the one that was least traveled."

The instant we become aware of any negative thought or feeling wanting us to embrace its agitation - not only must we drop it on the spot, but we must also drop any familiar sense of self that has appeared with it in that same moment.

Before we can hope to shatter the pattern of familiar conflicts in our relationships, we need a new level of understanding to take with us into those same moments.

Our feelings about the world that we see, with all its confusing colors and schemes, are reflections of our own internal life.

The peace of the perfectly present moment, in which dwells the kingdom of heaven, is what our heart of hearts longs to know.

Whenever we act cruelly toward another, it's because something cruel "takes over and handles" the moment for us by doing what it remembers to do.

Life wants us to know the meaning of it. It is an innate urge in us to know the meaning of our life, and it is right before us in the mirror of the present moment.

The first step to breaking out of any rut in life is to no longer enable the parts of us that keep walking in them while wishing they weren't so deep.

There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever.