Show me the person who asks the least from him or herself – who wishes to do only what must be done to get through their day – and I'll show you a fledgling soul that denies herself, daily, the possibility of knowing just how much the Divine would gladly give to her if only she would learn to ask.
Once we awaken to see that suffering over "who we are not" is one and the same pain as the momentary pleasure of thinking about "who we should be" – then "trying" to become anyone at all simply comes to an end.
The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!...
There is never a good reason to go along with feeling bad about yourself, or to be embittered toward life.
Your True Self is untouchable by any dark thought or feeling, much in the same way as the sun has no shadows within or around it.
Any time you sit, think about, and "stew" over what someone did to you, or simmer in anger about some past event, the real reason for your pain is because you're cooking your own goose!...
Have you ever fallen down in a relationship? Fallen down when someone cut you off on the freeway? Fallen down when sudden economic news came at work? Fallen down when a thought revisited you about what mother or father didn't say, or what was taken from you by someone who promised you something and gave you another? Why do we have to fall down? When we...
Every complaint, any negative reaction produced by a moment resisted, secretly serves to glorify an indwelling darkness that wants you to see your life as being incomplete.
Part 1 Loneliness is born of a lack of love within us that nothing living outside of us can provide. Part 2 Being willful is very painful.