We can no more hope to complete ourselves through trying to satisfy our senses than one could hope to grow a rose by planting its petals.
We never enable someone else without having first disabled our own Higher Nature that knows better than to bargain for friendship, love -- or to just feel "needed" in some way...
Real Faith and Freedom go hand in hand, because no one is free who lives with fear, and fear cannot live in a person of Faith.
A painful regret is a needless present pain over an experience now past, where a misstep becomes the seed of a misery mistakenly carried forward, instead of a lesson learned and then dropped.
Thoughts turn into acts and habits are formed, from habits the shape of character’s borne... In character’s forged Each soul’s destiny, so does Truth make plain the seed is the tree!
Learn to turn the things that you don't want to do in life into deliberate conscious actions, and it won't be too long before you'll want to do the things that you've always tried to avoid.
Until one is able to remember -- and then embody -- the realization that "I am" must come before "I want" -- then the old fears and tears over one's self must continue taking precedence over the possibility of one's (spiritual) rebirth.
Learning to "wait on the Divine" -- a state that sounds delicious -- requires the discipline of a singular action soon found to be anything but desirable. This stage is known as having to "wade through oneself!"...
Rushing through anything is a sure sign that you neither understand what you're doing in the moment, nor why you are actually doing it. Getting anxious over any task is proof that you don't know who you are.
Setting out into your day without first choosing a single intention to help guide you through it is like setting sail for a distant country and realizing too late that you left shore having forgotten both compass and rudder.
See the storm lashed mountains, the wave tossed sea, Nothing is too much for them; all is as should be. The same holds true for us: we are made for what happens to us.
Part 1 He forsakes himself who forgets that freedom is a choice that must be made now or never. Part 2 You cannot dream the greatness of your own possibilities, but it is possible to dream them away.