No one agrees to rush (through life) who isn't first convinced of the 'need for speed' by the whispered command of some pressing desire demanding that one race to find a solution for its suffering.

Rushing is a false thrill; it's a painful sensation that helps create and sustain the illusion that the distance between the false self, and its desire of the moment, is real.

Question: In your various books and audio products, you often mention the idea that we should "want what Life wants, accept what God gives to us." Do you mean that we should not visualize what we would like to manifest for ourselves? Is that wrong to do? Is having expectations for a better journey in life an illusion? Answer: There is nothing wrong at all with visualizing what one wan...

Exercise: When you feel a contraction -- of worry, fear, emptiness, desire, excitement, etc. -- ask yourself am I connected to what's alive or what's dead. Then bring yourself back into the living now and die to the past instead of being drawn into revisiting your life.

As long as desire remains unaware of itself, it can only chase after its own reflection through time, always running after -- and reaching for -- the consummation of its own longing that it can never know.

It is possible for us to learn to attract success, instead of trying to chase it down through years of toil, disappointment, and heartache. So how do we do it? How do we learn to attract the success we want instead of letting the desire for the objects of success push us around from problem to problem? The answer is simple: We begin to doubt what compromises us. This means that we will no lo...

Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. It has been quietly, steadily telling itself right in front of us all along. We just couldn't hear it over the clatter and chatter of our own secret demands. Listen quietly for a moment: everything can change right now. Learning to hear this supreme secret is no more difficult than choosing whether to swim against a current or to let it carry you safely...

Disagree with the opinion of what others would have you believe is true, and they will secretly resent you; but quietly refuse to argue about anything with these same people, and they will openly cry out that you have abandoned them.

The Life of Learning Singers perform 'As the Deer' -- a simple but beautiful piece written by Martin Nystrom, based on Psalm 42. 'As the deer panteth for the water so my soul longeth after thee. You alone are my heart's desire and I long to be with thee'...

Giving yourself empty things to do can't fill the emptiness you feel inside, so... risk leaving that space empty; allow it to be filled with something you can't give yourself: freedom from the fear of feeling empty...

Part 1 Anxiety is a form of negative anticipation; it is the dark by-product of a divided mind that imagines, at once, the security it seeks and what may come along to steal it away! Part 2 The essential emptiness of desire is hidden in the fullness it seeks.

To identify with any experience of life, no matter how whole it makes us feel in that moment must -- at some point -- reveal that the “experiencer” of that moment is, in fact, apart from it.