Once living within the limits of what is known is also realized as being the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart from the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we may yet become.

The "medicine that heals" -- the intention to see ourselves as we are, and the subsequent revelations that alone can help set us free -- can only be as important (and ultimately invaluable) to us as is the extent of a higher awareness that calls for that exact prescription.

Finally after 47 years I understand and feel the desire to understand the difference between the true self and the false self, and to clean up my life and my mind. When my mind starts to wander (which is almost all the time), I practice bringing myself back to the present moment. I am committed and really want to do this. However, I am feeling quite anxious and lost each day. A lot of uncomfor...

Guy Finley explains that being able to discern a true inner guide from a false one begins with understanding that any moment that disturbs us is actually intended to be a moment of illumination. Our first task in these moments is not to take action, but to work to be still and see the whole of the moment in a new way. The true guide is always a healing force, while the false guide is a conceal...

We rarely even suspect the harm in our attachments until the rope that we're holding onto -- by which we imagine that we're pulling ourselves up and into a better place in life -- suddenly reveals itself to be a set of chains whose weight is dragging us down and under.

Into each of our lives comes some fight that must be made; however, the key to true self-victory is not that we "win" at all costs, but rather that we always choose in favor of the Light that ensures we remain true, kind, and innocent in spite of the cost.

Calling on, and then allowing a spirit of unrest to help guide you to the peace that your heart of hearts seeks...Is like hoping that a stiff winter wind has come, just in time, to help you gather all the leaves that lay scattered across your lawn.

What is any true form of poetry, whether expressed in verse, action, or some sublime vision revealed, other than the heart -- having been awakened -- stretching her wings into worlds unknown and, upon arriving there, claiming them as her own... As does the Eagle the open skies through which it soars.

Seeing our helplessness, realizing our actual interior state without falling into despair over this revelation, is the first (real) step out of an unconscious level of self and into a conscious relationship with another, Divine order of being whose strength is realized only in proportion to our humility before it.

Allowing your mind to dwell on any unwanted moment -- anticipating that the more thought you give to finding a solution to that pain -- the sooner you'll be set free from it -- is like hoping to escape a prison cell by walking into it and locking the door behind you.

The strange attraction we can't overcome to our own negative states is born out of our resistance to them, because this resistance -- i.e., of not wanting to feel the way we do -- is the same as giving our attention to the painful feeling we profess not to want!...

Unconscious opposition to unwanted moments can never change the condition being opposed because the lower nature responsible for mounting this opposing force not only remains unchanged, but resists all that it does in order to ceaselessly re-create itself... Including the unwanted moments in which it always finds itself.