Searching for a permanent sense of security in the powers and possessions this world permits is like hoping to find a resting place on the face of a wave as it rolls across the sea.

Properly understood, everything in life that now disturbs us is intended to lead us to a world in which who we are lives as one with all that takes place within it.

Things go wrong in life. They just do. And sometimes downturns feel like they'll never get back to right-side up. Life is like that. So what! What we have been given is not what makes us who we are: the true measure of our soul's success is what we make with what we are given.

The more we practice quietly stepping outside that rushing stream of thoughts about ourselves, the more we realize our True Self as being something altogether unthinkable; for the undreamed power of a silent mind is this: Since it never sinks itself into useless considerations of the painful kind, it has no need to be rescued from its own troubled creations!...

Topic: Uncover the Unseen Source of Stress, Anxiety and All Other Unhappiness With Your Life (9/14/14 Classroom Talk)...

The only reason we ever feel trapped by anxious thoughts and feelings is that we just won't let go of the false idea that it takes time to know the strength and happiness of our original wholeness.

Do what is in your power: refuse to do what is not. It is not in your power to change events gone by, but you can let go of the time-bound self that wants to chain you to pain that only exists in the past!

The next time you feel as though you just have to talk to someone about something that's making you uncomfortable or unhappy, don't do it. You can learn to use that pressure to free yourself from all such feelings that want to push you around. Here's the explanation: finding relief is not the same as finding strength. That disturbance within you, whatever its reactionary nature, isn't re...

Unless our "productivity" in life serves to increase our soul's receptivity to the Living Light -- then all that we make for ourselves is an emptiness that passing time never fails to reveal.

discomfort, stress, fear, negative, foulness, inattention, law, sleep, Soul, life, negativity, attitude...

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view!

Sooner put out a fire with jet fuel than gain the upper hand on some anxious state by throwing more agitated thoughts into its turmoil.