The only way we can be released from any painful sense of false responsibility is to see that it is based in a false belief.

To know what you will possess after all that you have loved passes -- as it must -- look no further than how your "love" passes with the conditions that lend it its life. The foolish love foolishly, and suffer a fool's fate. Be wise; choose each moment to remember the one Love that neither ends...nor ever forgets you.

Freedom is not created, which means it cannot be destroyed any more than the onset of night destroys the light of the sun; and we are never "nearer" this true freedom than when we remember the truth of this fact in the middle of some fear.

Light, love -- all that is good and holy -- already exists. All the wisdom you and I will ever need already lives within us. It's just that we are not where the wisdom is. Why? Because we want to know, to prove, to get. We want to be seen as something special. All of us with that mindset are set to suffer ourselves until one day we see, "This doesn't work." In that same moment the epiphany comes, and suddenly we can see what we have been...

Before speaking to someone who intimidates me, I sometimes feel my throat start to close up and my voice choke up with so much tension that I find it hard to speak. I've got to get behind this fear, but I don't know how! One way in which it's possible for us to outgrow the problems that we face is to not let those problems dictate our behavior to us. In this instance, whenever we run into...

Since what others may do to us is not in our power to change, we need only concern ourselves with what we do to ourselves, for this is in our power.

Without reverting to their lower level, how do you get people to stop making their hurtful, cut-down remarks? One of the reasons people pounce on or attack us the way they do, is that they are feeding off of us in many different ways, especially when we return a negative energy. For an amazing experience, try sometime consciously refusing your own negativity in the face of someone else's.

Perhaps you have heard the expression that God never gives you more than you can handle. And perhaps you wondered whether or not it was true. I'm now going to tell you why it's the absolute truth. It's the absolute truth because any time you choose, you can ask God to take back what He has given you. Any time you choose, you can say, "Dear Lord, I now see I asked for [and now you fill in the...

I wake up every morning and this terror comes over me to the point of producing many physical symptoms. I want God's life with all my being, but I feel like I am standing on a bridge staring down into the abyss and cannot move through this. Please help. What other way is there of dealing with panic attacks if all forms of resistance are futile? Why is it that when I hear some bad news, it auto...

What is meditation, and is there some "best" method for its practice? What is prayer and what's the most effective way to pray? Should I be really be asking God for specific things? How can I practice ceaseless prayer? When I sit down to meditate, thoughts crowd in, and I can't seem to find a truly quiet moment. How am I ever going to change if I can't even do this simple exercise?...

There's only one way to realize the perfect sense of safety and unshakable contentment that comes with quietly knowing you're first on God's "list"... and that's to remember, at all times, your wish (and the work) it takes to place the needs of His life ahead of your own.

Unhappy feelings are born out of life failing to conform to your ideas of what you need to be happy. This shows you, if you will see it, that life itself isn't denying you happiness. It is your ideas about life that have failed you. Give up these wrong ideas instead of giving up on life. Be increasingly willing to see they are nothing but a constant source of conflict. Your false nature will...