You cannot protect yourself from psychological pain or disappointment and hope to court the Divine. Awakening is a movement; it is a marriage of risk and revelation that gives birth to a new order of being that is one with change.

It is impossible to dismiss any negative thought or feeling without first doubting -- and then consciously challenging -- its right to darken your heart and mind.

There can be no lasting freedom from any psychological suffering... other than to first illuminate the unconscious condition responsible for it, and then to undertake the dedicated interior work it takes to withdraw from that relationship.

Any part of your nature that searches for or finds good reason to justify your pain, is the secret source of that pain it justifies.

We are never closer to realizing the next level of our own higher possibilities than when, by the light of a new awareness we see some old darkness within us, and then agree that we can no longer be that which we have been.

What is any form of rushing other than one side of the divided mind racing to close the gap between itself and whatever it has imagined it must have in order to complete its equally imagined state of being incomplete.

Whether to persist and aspire to the Higher, or drop into some dark despair, that is the question; and which of these two seeds flowers all depends on which one you choose to nourish and grow. Every life lesson properly learned is the same as... a new freedom earned.

Look where any man or woman spends most of their time -- upon what they spend it -- and, despite all protest to the contrary, you will see exactly what that person loves above all else.

There are times when the truest choice is not based upon what you're feeling, but rather from what you are willing to see is true about your feelings.

We can never really stop jumping through hoops until we realize that the only thing waiting for us on the other side is the same fearful nature that's shouting at us to jump!...

Exercise: Realize that anytime you've been caught in some type of dark state that you've 'stepped on a color' and identified with something that wants to have its own continuity. In these moments, what's needed to break that cycle is not thought about it, but another order of awareness that knows 'That's Not I.'...

Exercise: The awakening person realizes that any psychological pain they feel is the touch of something greater that is inviting a rebirth. See how many times you can catch an old self that wants to continue itself and 'make the exchange' by allowing what is unconscious in you to be made conscious.