Nothing is wrong with desiring financial independence, but this kind of freedom isn't what you really want. What you really want is freedom from a self that torments you each time it compares itself to others it imagines are happier than you are because of what they possess. Truth be known, these people are possessed by a kind of spirit that can never be satisfied, as evidenced by the fact t...

There are parts of us that would rather be punished by unkind people than have to spend one minute being alone, because the only way these same parts in us can exist is if they have someone to resent or somehow fear. In this case we remain in these ruinous relationships because the fear or emptiness we feel in even considering leaving them seems to be too much to bear on our own. Here's the k...

There are parts of us that would rather be punished by unkind people than have to spend one minute being alone, because the only way these same parts in us can exist is if they have someone to resent or somehow fear. In this case we remain in these ruinous relationships because the fear or emptiness we feel in even considering leaving them seems to be too much to bear on our own. Here's the k...

There are parts of us that would rather be punished by unkind people than have to spend one minute being alone by ourselves, because the only way these same parts in us can exist is if they have someone to resent or somehow fear. In this case, we remain in these ruinous relationships because the fear or emptiness we feel in even considering leaving them is felt to be too much to bear on our ow...

Real self-freedom is not achieved by filling ourselves to capacity with imagined sources of happiness, but in learning to empty ourselves of the imaginary self and its secret storehouse of sorrows.

The only thing we see when caught in the grip of a memory... are the shadows of thought. Images in time, forsaken shades of vanity whose empty forms give shape to... illusions of “me.”

Tension is the struggle between Yes and No; the wish to stay, and the will to go. Peace is the empty space between here and there: a ladder without rungs suspended mid-air.

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We imagine the impossible for ourselves to temporarily look upon ourselves as doers of greatness. Work to do the possible by conquering our own self-created imaginings.

Invite silent moments. Cultivate self-quiet. Be inwardly alone. Learn to be still. Stay in that safe, silent world that's free of comparison until... it stays in you. Then, you will never be alone, or empty, again.

The true measure of our love for the Light of the Divine isn't found in how much it fills us, but rather in our willingness to empty ourselves (of our self) for the sake of living its Presence.

Seeking power, it weakens itself. Seeking fulfillment, it empties itself. Seeking control, it abandons itself. Seeking security, it frightens itself. Seeking relationship, it betrays itself...