We are so occupied trying to fill our lives with what we want that we can't see how all that we need is being given to us freely every moment of the day.
We are never less ourselves than when we try to make more of ourselves at the cost of another.
It is a mistake for us to think in terms of spiritual "success." We are not here to succeed as we currently believe; we are here to change. If we wanted to use words, we could say that real success lies in genuinely knowing and living our part in life. However, the problem is that we have unknowingly named for ourselves what our part is. If we truly want a new life, it will come at a great co...
Part I: Further deliberation over our captive condition cannot liberate us from it any more than we can hope to repair a leaky faucet by buying a new plug for the sink. Part II: Better to wait, trembling, upon the open ground of what we love than to seek shelter in the fear of what will become of us.
All half-actions are the children of fear; this explains not only why they fail us -- as they do -- but also how they sow the seeds of indecision that, in turn, completes the dark cycle of self-compromise.
Today more people have acquired greater wealth than any time in our history, and yet the facts are clear: there is more stress, fear, and heartache than ever before! A coincidence? Not hardly. Then what are we seeing? Proof that worldly accomplishment is not the same as achieving success of the soul, and that one without the other is empty of meaning -- a lot like taking first place in a...