When all is said and done, there is only one freedom that cannot be diminished, and only one place where its abiding peace can be found: All that your heart longs for lives within your True Self. Your True Self is fearless, loving, and totally free. Realizing its unlimited life as your own enables you to enter a whole new world within yourself...
Topics covered: One particularly pervasive lie in our culture is that we believe that we are only as valuable as other people see us as being; Until what is concealed in us is revealed, it can never be healed; "This above all: to thine ownself be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." -- William Shakespeare
We live, at present, by the law of every passing imperative . . . and thereby ignore the presence of the most important of all: first and foremost, to possess ourselves.
Imagining all that remains to be done to realize the contentment we seek -- or that we must struggle with to attain some illusive peace of mind -- is like trying to calm the ripples on the surface of a reflecting pond...
The Unknowable Source of Peace in real life far exceeds our reach... because it can’t be grasped, let alone taken by hand; it can only be received by a heart that has willingly emptied itself of hope in all things seen...
What is real spiritual strength? It is knowing that we need never (again) compromise ourselves in any way -- with anyone, or over anything -- in order to be at peace. (It is) a perfectly quiet confidence in the awareness that our existence owes no debt to any condition, let alone to the passage of time in which it temporarily appears.
It is within relationships that we grow as individuals in everything valuable, because it is through them that we become stronger and wiser, allowing us to realize a love that transcends our unseen self-limiting self-interests. What do we have to do to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent sum of co...
The reason we have two hands is so that one of them may caress life, even as the other lets it go.
If we look at (unexpected) events as something placed in our way, a troublesome time we must pile through on our way to some imagined peace to come, then we literally throw away the possibility of discovering that each moment, regardless of its appearance, is divine in nature and can serve to help us remember the same... if only we so choose.
The real source of resentment toward others is not due to some power we may think they have and hold over us; rather, it arises from a secret weakness within us that keeps us believing that someone else holds the key to our well being.