Winning liberation from any painful dark inner state begins with working to withdraw your attention away from its purpose while remembering your own intention to be free.

When you understand that you can't isolate the "I" from the storm that it's in...that it perceives torment but is itself the secret ground of this pain...then you begin to cease willing yourself as that "I".

No one would think to seek something that he didn't first feel he had somehow lost. So it is with our search for God's Life. But in the end, as one draws nearer to realizing his quest he begins to understand that the Great Prize he has sought in all places was never lost. It had only been forgotten.

The spiritual life is a genesis. When the seed awakens it isn't to herself, but to the life that now stirs her. As only one, she slept. As two, she knows life. As both she leaves her dark world and rises up into the light a whole new form.

The more personally we take what are the unwanted moments in our lives, the less power we have over them... and ourselves.

Man is as nothing without some greatness expressed through him, and all men are created with some special strength unique to them. Yet, man is not enough if with his greatness he has not meekness. The only man in whom greatness and meekness can exist at once is the man who has found that all greatness, including his, belongs to Christ; so that the greater the gift he has, the greater is his...

Only by learning to reside within what is unchanging in you can you learn to enjoy this ever-changing world.

Our freedom in life can not be separated from life, and only in finding our life's true purpose do we find true freedom.

Why in the world am I so weak that I can't remember my good intentions? How will I ever succeed spiritually when this weakness keeps getting in the way of my making any real progress? When I manage to remember my higher aim in life, I seem to lose control of my life, and other people are quick to take advantage of what they evidently see as my weakness. Should this be happening or am I going a...

The Divine journey begins with our gradual awakening to the timeless depth and breadth of our own sleeping consciousness. All that we are, and hope to be already resides therein... waiting to reveal its Light to whoever will dare make the leap into the seeming darkness of its perfect emptiness...