Our present experience of life is the mostly negative effect of living in a state of unconscious duality. So that instead of being aware of the anxious and fearful antics of a mind secretly set against itself, we sleep in its dreams... ever struggling to change or escape the world we are given to see, instead of doing the interior work it takes to change the nature of the seer.

No one who loves the Divine, who embraces the Truth, need ever fear what life may bring down the road. Remember: the effects of passing time must, necessarily, act upon what is created; that's what time does. But within you lives something Timeless, and its Life can't be touched by temporary events or fading energies anymore than a star in the heavens fears someone blowing out a candle on earth.

Part 1 Once we realize that whatever we will bring into our awareness has always been an aspect of our own consciousness, only not yet realized as being so, we also understand this liberating truth: nothing exists outside of us. All destinations are already within us, including the Love we are searching for... and the unconditional freedom which It alone has the power to grant. **Part...

It often feels as if difficult moments in our life are things that we just have to "go through," but this is only half the story... and the lessor half, at that. In truth, each life event represents the appearance of a spontaneous set of circumstances created just for us... a unique moment in passing time whose soul purpose is to provide us with exactly what we need to "grow through."...

What is the nature of any order of enlightenment if not a sudden realization that one's former limitations are an illusion; that what once seemed so real, so dark or impassable, isn't real at all. The dawning of this inner light proves our fears to be without substance. So that what we outgrow in these moments isn't some fearful condition, but rather a fear-filled level of our own consciousn...

In remembering the truth of myself, I invite to the forefront of myself a Presence that can neither punish itself nor any other; (it is) a living light that naturally, effortlessly transforms and glorifies whatever it reveals. In self-forgetfulness, I forgo this relationship; instead I receive and agree, by default, to actualize a dark nature whose sole intent it is to make a victim of me... f...

We are wrongly led to believe that life makes us into the kind of person we are. In truth, it's our level of self-understanding that makes life what it is for us! This is why nothing can really change for us until we see the truth of the following: trying to change some condition in life, without first changing the consciousness responsible for its appearance is like... blaming the mirror for...

Part 1 Confusion is the distance between what real life is showing you about yourself, and your refusal to see the same. Part 2 To realize the thought nature is powerless to resolve the incomplete experiences of life that it creates in the first place releases you from the illusion that by revisiting those same moments -- with thought as your guide -- that you can escape the confus...

All judging of oneself -- whether of one's own negative characteristics, or that of others -- is the dark effect of a divided mind as it acts against itself. First it gives birth to self-loathing created by an imagined comparison, and then it sits in harsh judgment of both that imagined self and its suffering. In this way it hides its secret involvement in the perpetuation of this false percep...

A tree has many leaves, and the wind touches all of them... in one way or another. Some shake, some quiver, some hardly move at all. Yes, the tree knows their trembling; but neither the wind, nor the leaves it stirs are the tree that feels their touch. Thoughts and feelings are like leaves; learning to watch them wave is much better than being carried away with every breeze.

My mother died when I was only 12, and my father died just recently. He was 88. I have always fervently believed that someday I would be reunited with my parents, somewhere? But now I'm beginning to have doubts. Does everyone's energy just become something else and no one is ever again who they were? So in that case I would never be with my parents again?...

Vernon Howard was a bit harsh in his assessments of people. He believed you shouldn't help others. I think we all need help because many of us are blind. Would you help anyone that came to you, even "undeserving" people? Aren't we all undeserving? Vernon spoke of "super-sickies." Are there such people?...