It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain...

Real limitless living is the fruit of this higher understanding: what is in our way is part of the Way. To know this is to know that all of creation has been made for you, just as surely as you have been made for everything that happens to you within it.

The only thing the excuses we make for ourselves actually do is to increase our dependency on them.

Part 1Unseen by those who feel empty, resisted by those always in a rush, feared by those who resist change, is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, anxiety, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with! Part 2When it comes to desires they can either be a part of your world, serving as intended or you can be a servant.

Part 1 To know why we feel as we do in any given moment, we need look no farther than what we love for the mind cannot create anything that drags us down without our willing embrace. Part 2 As goes your attention, so comes your experience.

All psychological suffering is born of unconscious resistance to life; it is the bitter fruit of the futile attempt to prove that our sense of self exists outside of the conditions that give rise to its revelation.

Part 1 To have and to hold a hatred of anyone--or anything--is to reject the possibility of ever being released from the unseen attachment that is the real source of all self-induced suffering. Part 2 We must (each) agree to pay the debts of our fathers if there's ever to be any hope of balancing this world before it breaks down into so many parts that it can never again be put back...

Part 1 Psychological resistance is just a strong, painful sensation. (It is) a blind force of unconscious rejection, the life-blood of a negative nature that always -- and only -- appears whenever life fails to affirm one of its dark demands. Part 2 Trying to change any unwanted moment in your life -- without first changing that level of consciousness (in you) that doesn't want it -...