"The fox blames the trap." But, a wise person, shaking – quaking in a sudden awaked-ness after being caught in a trap of his or her own devices – doesn't fall into the second trap: blaming others for the pain of seeing what they alone have wrought. It may seem incomprehensible – especially to the "clever" fox – but there is a nature in the human an...

What we are willing to pay, to give up for the sake of being free all depends on how aware we are of how painful is our sense of captivity...

There is never a good reason to go along with feeling bad about yourself...

Because we are conditioned from birth to see, and experience ourselves as separate from -- “other than” -- what we imagine is needed to make ourselves whole, our search for this missing sense of holiness that we believe is somewhere “outside” of us... ensures we never realize it...

What is the nature of what we call the past -- its make-up and our experience of it, individually and collectively -- other than the sum of all our choices up until this moment in time...

Every cell in our body “waits” for the life-giving oxygen that must be replaced within it... moment by moment... though it cannot “know” what it waits on...

In this life, in due time, in one form or another, and more-or-less as you’ve conceived it, you will receive what you ask for. Of this there’s no question...

Has whatever I’m about to do ever brought an end to the compulsion to do it? Clearly I must be looking for something not of this world...

Is not the whole world, all of creation, in a ceaseless act of awakening? Life itself is never not awakening...

What happens in an unwanted moment? Just like that, in a split second, we look for a savior...

I see . . . that I have been of a warring spirit, commanded by its nature – but now I see the futility of war. I see . . . that I seek to command, to control all that moves around me because . . . I have no command of anything that moves within me that makes me hostage of a will seemingly beyond my ability to contest. I see that . . . I am a thing moved, challenged by...

Resistance is one of three celestial forces contributing to the revelation and ceaseless perfection of creation itself... which means it is always complementary to the completion of each moment...