The one who dares to go beyond what he thinks he can do will always meet a point where he has a choice to either return from where he has just come, or to remain where he is... in a world without power. But, if one stays true to his wish to be (made) new -- if he will only linger there long enough -- he will be given the power he needs to possess, a power he didn't have when first he set out.

The mind that thinks in order to understand life believes it can see, but (it) can't; while the mind that sees doesn't need to think to understand life; (it) has no need for belief.

There is a Love that transcends every experience that a human being can have of the sensation or the emotion that we call "love." It isn't the love we have for our family. It isn't the love we have for nature. It isn't even the love that we feel when we're thinking about a truth and we feel uplifted by it. It is a Love of a completely different order.

As the sleeping mind -- driven on, as it is by unconscious desires -- awakens to see that the only thing thought can do is make circles, it slowly stops seeking. The divine longing of the heart to know unconditional love remains, but the old "action" of trying to think one's way out of pain, and into some imagined "paradise" falls away. Now the veils part... and instead of there being an imagi...

Part I: When he "thinks" about his life, and all of his plans, what else does he do in such moments but read the content of his own thoughts that are, themselves, captives of secret self-reflections... but when he is awake to himself, present within his own native intuition, his unfettered mind roams the universe and awaits her perfect guidance. Part II: At every step of the way one's natura...

I had a friend for 5 years, and out of the blue I made a simple remark...and now she is not my friend anymore! I apologized, and she said she forgives me, but it's obvious she holds a grudge. Now our friendship is over...for good. It's breaking my heart. What can I do to get over this? How can there be no forgiveness for what I said without thinking? (From student correspondence)...

The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize it creates the stress and strain it can't stop trying to rescue itself from...

Awareness of the moment is our consciousness of it. So, the more aware we can be of the whole of our consciousness in any moment, the less there is for us to think about -- let alone try to do, because awareness cannot act against itself. Why? Because the light of awareness isn't divided into what it is aware of, and what it knows about it...