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.

In any moment of crisis, when we don't know who or what we should turn to, some form of fear is always happy to step in and to take the lead.

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.

In any moment of crisis, when we don't know who or what we should turn to, some form of fear is always happy to step in and to take the lead.

The more we practice quietly stepping outside that rushing stream of thoughts about ourselves, the more we realize our True Self as being something altogether unthinkable; for the undreamed power of a silent mind is this: Since it never sinks itself into useless considerations of the painful kind, it has no need to be rescued from its own troubled creations!...

Searching for a permanent sense of security in the powers and possessions this world permits is like hoping to find a resting place on the face of a wave as it rolls across the sea.

Fear -- or any negative state that persists as a power to punish us is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear: Either we agree to live with these negative states, eve...

Fear -- any negative state that persists as a power to punish us -- is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear: Either we agree to live with these negative states, ever s...

In truth, we are never more lost to ourselves, or to the hope of realizing our own unlimited potential, than we are when we give ourselves over to the fear of what may become of our lives... for whoever takes fear as his guide follows not just the blind, but is further deceived into believing that its blinding force is the same as some new and higher power of perception!...

You have the Light to detect, dismiss, and to transcend the limiting influences of painful negative states such as doubt, worry, hatred, anger, and fear.

Stillness is a higher, unshakable order of happiness and contentment that the mind -- stimulated by the pursuit or possession of its desired -- cannot imagine.

Stillness is a higher, unshakable order of happiness and contentment that the mind - - stimulated by the pursuit or possession of its desired - - cannot imagine.