We want to be free of negative states, but refuse to bear our share in carrying the weight of them, a necessary act of self-sacrifice that is the mandatory interim stage between being burdened by the false self... and being set free from it.

Part 1 The avoidance of any form of psychological pain -- no matter how cleverly construed, or thoroughly masked -- is not the same as freedom from its suffering. Part 2 Nothing is more empty of higher possibilities than a mind filled with resistance to the revelations of life.

Awareness doesn't just reveal the presence of an Intelligence that can't act against itself; awareness IS intelligence itself... which means whatever is brought into its presence will be acted upon by it in ways that can never be known in advance of that act.

The wise -- finding themselves adrift at sea -- are ever watchful for a favorable wind to come fill their sails. But, while they wait... they row night and day on the heading they believe will lead them back to the safety of their home shores.

Stop complaining. Start changing. The appearance of every moment comes with an unseen set of complementary, but completely different "buttons:" one is marked "going down." The other reads "up." Your destiny in life all depends upon which of these two buttons you select. Choose wisely!...

What is any form of rushing other than one side of the divided mind racing to close the gap between itself and whatever it has imagined it must have in order to complete its equally imagined state of being incomplete.

We are never judged for whatever may be our present degree of spiritual blindness. Only when we agree to turn a blind eye to some truth about ourselves that life has asked us to see are we instantly punished by our refusal to see.

Trying to meet life with predetermined ideas about how to handle what unfolds before us -- before it does -- is like a downhill skier wanting to know where he will make his turns before he reaches the mountain down which he intends to ski!...

We are never closer to realizing the next level of our own higher possibilities than when, by the light of a new awareness we see some old darkness within us, and then agree that we can no longer be that which we have been....

There is no tension, anxiety, or dissatisfaction inherent in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for you to be in more than one place at a time, doing more than one thing at a time.

Real self-knowledge is inseparable from making real intentions, and then acting upon them. You will never know the truth of yourself by listening to the parts of yourself that tell you to hide out. Only shadows fear the light of the presence moment.

Why isn't there actually a "secret" or technique for fearless living?...