If we will refuse to fill unwanted moments with what we imagine we must have – or do – to feel secure and free, we will soon witness those same dark moments being filled with the fearless Light of an unimaginable Life.

It is impossible to hear the "Voice of Heaven" – to be in any level of communication with what is Divine in nature – and be talking to yourself at the same time.

Resistance recreates - and then reinstates - whatever it opposes, including the false sense of self that keeps trying - in vain - to free itself from whatever it doesn’t want to see is true about itself!

The proof that every moment - including the most painful of them - is unlimited in its Divine possibility is that one soul perishes for the fear of them, while another (soul) is perfected, and liberated by the same.

The one who awakens is no more troubled over what others may think of him or her than is the sun concerned by people who complain it rises too early, or sets too late!

Our awareness of anything pure, innocent, and beautiful - any moment realized as timeless and true - is the temporary experience of the abiding union between heaven and earth and, in that same instant, to know ourselves as its witness.

We must make - and keep - a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

No condition, in and of itself, is ever the cause of psychological stress, fear, or regret; suffering of this kind is inherent in an unseen, unconscious level of "self" that resists changing conditions because it is incapable of changing with them.

In this answer to a viewer's question, self-realization author Guy Finley explains that we presently live from a part of ourselves that comes into moments fully conditioned and convinced that the moment should unfold according to the script that it has written.

Unseen attachments, negative imagination, and unconscious identification with the body of their conditioned demands has incarnated a kind of dark trinity: a false sense of “self” whose fear we’ve been deceived into believing we must protect at all costs, or otherwise face some terrible consequence.

There can be no greater wealth than higher self-knowledge. And once we realize this truth - so that we prize transcendent wisdom above all other possibilities - every moment, wanted or not, serves as the secret path to the spiritual summit of ourselves.

All negative reactions are creatures rooted in the past; they are dark shadows of old fears and sorrows gone by. No negative reaction can grow, let alone deepen its roots (within us) as long as we agree to bring them into the healing Light of higher awareness.