We cannot hide from what we fear to go through in life any more than a child who, hiding under his bed covers at night, can outrun the boogey man that reaches out for him in the dark of his own fearful imagination.

The next time you want to go ahead with any project -- whether it's designing a rocket ship, or finally getting around to repairing your favorite rocking chair -- and you start to feel those old familiar doubts, dreads, or doldrums rising up to block your way, just walk right through them.

The best time -- in fact, the only time -- to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started!...

Since what troubles us, troubles us now -- then now is when we must awaken to and address within ourselves whatever it is that makes us ache. To delay this interior work is to lose sight of the doorway that our own disturbed state opens for us and beckons us to enter.

Topics explored in this dialogue: We are intended to have multiple lifetimes in this one; we're not meant to just become good at something and get stuck in a pattern of protecting what we've created for ourselves; We are created to change and discover an unceasing vista in our own consciousness; Nothing is intended to confine you; you can no more be held captive of an unwanted moment than you...

You can't change the kind of person you are later. There is no later. It's always now or never. You can't be kind later. And you can't learn later. Choose to change now, and that moment will never come for you to worry about how to be better next time. Why? Because your conscious choice for real change in the present moment automatically cancels the need for a better you in a better future...

Trying to make yourself feel better by imagining a happier time to come is like hoping to make the pain of being hungry go away by reading a menu.

The relationship between voluntary suffering, and the good spiritual fortune that any conscious labor will produce... is similar to how the hard work it takes to cultivate a field increases the likelihood of a healthy bumper crop.

Trying to make yourself feel better by imagining a happier time to come is like hoping to make the pain of being hungry go away by reading a menu.

The one who wants to 'get away from it all' -- to step out of the mad rush and enjoy some imagined 'well-earned rest' -- doesn't realize that the one who can't relax travels with him wherever he goes!...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 4, 2018. Part 1: The illusion of Time is that it's a progression, but it is not; (it is) a higher dimension in and through which the will of creation continues to be revealed.

Procrastination often disguises itself as the need to have everything "in order" before one actually gets started.