We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer. Then, as we bring to ourselves whatever we thought we needed, it changes. Or, as we actually see that it doesn't fulfill us, then the thing inside of us that wants this answer changes. Slowly b...
Your conscious participation in inner exercises, such as these five practices, is the only way to awaken the will you need so that one day you never have to answer to any anxiety again!...
Today is your lucky day. That's because today is the day when you can start learning how to make every day your lucky day. No exceptions. But what is a lucky day? It's not just winning the lottery. Or finding a parking space right in front of the store where you want to go shopping. Sure, those things are a kind of luck. But real luck is much deeper...
Now is the Holiday; there is no other time of birth, of sacrifice, and of rebirth. To look for reconciliation outside of what the Divine reveals within you in "each" Presence moment is to look in the wrong place, for the wrong thing. Don't be dismayed; don't be fooled; keep looking. Remain watchful even when life seems empty. The only reason the present moment, as it is, seems as though it is...
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In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are.
If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that is never satisfied.
The real reason people remain captives of unwanted circumstances in their lives is because they've yet to realize this great spiritual secret: Resistance is negative attraction. In other words: the longer we dwell on what we don't want in life, the larger grows that dark dwelling place in which we find ourselves living. ~~~ You need not answer to any disturbance within you. Any form of res...
Part I: Like a small child drags his or her cherished blanket along behind them where it is pulled through whatever it finds on the floor, so too do we drag along our unwanted moments in life... Comforted on the one hand by the familiarity of these lingering associations, even while the weight of these moments pulls us down punishing us with their painful refrains. Part II: We would all reali...
There are two basic kinds of prayer. The first kind of prayer -- the one most commonly understood and practiced -- is when you are asking for what you want; when you are temporarily filled with -- and renewed by -- both the self making that request and the anticipation of what is requested. This is the only kind of prayer that most men and women ever know; when someone asks from himself for...
We each live -- moment to moment -- in a world the size of our understanding. This means many encouraging things, beginning with this important discovery: When we feel small, of no consequence, or emotionally powerless to rise above some pressing pain, it's because we are living in and from unconscious parts of ourselves that are, in themselves, narrow and cut off from the bright and broad f...
Our lives are meant to be bright, noble, and ever ascending. This promise of our true potential is made good in us by fulfilling our possibilities and not through the interminable struggle of trying to prove what is impossible. Most of our sorrows are the stressful offspring of trying to be something we have no real need to be; they are born for attempting to do...