The worst part – for which there are no words – of having wasted our life wandering through this world, looking for our reflection in its passing rewards, is that we seldom realize the sorrow of our situation until it’s too late.

It is the very nature of thought to postpone life, and thereby put off entrance into the heaven it seeks.

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.

Rushing through life lends the one who habitually hurries the feeling of being "important"; but loans such as these come at the high cost of always having to justify one's unkindness -- as when one has to convince himself that his impatience with others is a necessary evil along the way to that "greater good" towards which he ever runs.

We keep ourselves active so that we are never not before a parade of passing things; and thus we know and see ourselves through temporary reflections, never knowing or being ourselves at all.

It only seems like it's possible to avoid unwanted moments, but the truth is that your present nature is as much a part of what you don't want . . . as what it would push away.

Whatever it is you wish to receive from life, learn first to give this without reserve; but neither should you give in order to receive . . . for this is a secret form of taking that brings you nothing in return but resentment.

When we meet our limitations head on we enter into relationship with a transformative power that enables us to transcend anything that would limit us.

Why is it that we will challenge and then work to change the world's opinions as they concern us, but we never question our own beliefs no matter how much personal pressure, stress and anxiety they may produce? For example, we wouldn't dream of diving for sunken treasure in our bathtub because we know that the best we can hope to find there are a few plastic pearls. And yet we still dive headl...

It isn't our "plans" to improve ourselves that empower the changes we know are needed in our lives; it is our willingness to suffer what we must that makes good our wish, that delivers us to our intended goal.