Part I: Loneliness stalks the heart that stands outside the present moment, looking back upon itself and feeling the pain of being without a love. If only this same heart, unknowingly divided, could see that this painful loneliness is produced by its own unhappy considerations of itself, then -- upon returning Home to its native Wholeness -- this heart now reunited would realize the lasti...

We can only realize the possibility of ourselves once we weary of the impossibility of protecting the lie of ourselves.

You cannot insulate yourself from life without isolating yourself in the fearful world of those uncertain thoughts and feelings that would convince you it is far better to protect yourself from the unknown that to let go and find freedom within it.

Part I To our present nature embracing a familiar unhappiness is better than facing the untried possibilities inherent in the unknown. Part II He follows not the image he sees before him - as he imagines he does - but the nature of his thoughts...for many a man has dreamed himself a dream and found, instead, his life in a maelstrom spinning into the dark.

Don't try to be free -- for this sets you against any movement of life that doesn't line up with your ideas about the nature of freedom. Better than trying to be free, learn instead to freely explore all of your moments. For instance, be free to wonder about your worries instead of feverishly working to resolve them according to your present ideas about a worry-free life. Then perhaps y...

Never run from any blow that life brings to you; for within you dwells, as yet unknown, a Character whose Celestial Nature is to whatever may assail you as is the native element of gold to the mallet of a master jeweler; where from each blow rises not only the softened sheen of a new luster found only in humility, but a new strength realized for each impurity revealed and removed; so that grad...

See the truth of this and begin to break out of the prison of self: it is impossible for you to feel as though you are a captive of any moment without having first given your consent to be in this captivity.

Part I: Self is a form of invisible psychic sludge; a residue imbued with certain mechanical forces that produces sensations of life without itself being alive. Part II: The one true God is without a name; an Unknowable Nature whose Truth may be apprehended, but never comprehended. And our unknowable God lives in an equally unknowable Time: The Now; which is why only the Unknown may know it...

Whenever we call upon something in ourselves we only imagine ourselves to be - but that we are not - there always surfaces a fear that expresses itself as a pressure we feel to prove that we are as imagined.

Part I: Always fighting to stave off the hour feared does nothing to stem that dark tide feared, but only serves to make you a part of its pounding waves that wash back and forth in perpetuity. Part II: Every time you struggle to save yourself from a fear, all you have really done is saved yourself for a fear.

Your true spiritual home, with its supreme shelter, is only as storm-proof as is your ability to remember to come in from out of the rain.

The refusal to acknowledge your responsibility in determining the course of your life is the direction you have chosen, as well as the destiny that awaits the unprepared.