When we're in pain most of us will do whatever seems necessary to bring relief. Almost any behavior can be justified when pain pushes us far enough, but we need not, and must not, handle it as we've always been directed to in the past. What we do need is to grow in our understanding of it. There are many things that have happened and that are happening in this world that are, at best, diffic...
Your willingness to study, absorb, and then work on these four special practices will provide you with rewards that go beyond this lifetime. So that the more you learn to treasure the insights they are designed to reveal, the freer you will be for all time. I believe the more I comfort and fill myself with thoughts of a "brighter tomorrow," the better off I am: But I can see...all discontent...
What we call a personal "crisis" is really that moment when some previously invisible conflict within us becomes temporarily visible.
Regardless of how dark or empty any given moment may first appear, it acts only as a herald of the living light he needs to see his way home to the Divine.
As long as we live within the darkened mansion of these lower-level thoughts and feelings, we must remain captives of their imperfect perspective.
It's hard to believe that we have a nature that would rather destroy someone else -- punish them, resent them -- than see itself as it is. Most of us still don't believe it, but when things don't happen the way we want them to, what becomes of us? What do we express? You know the answer, don't you?
When it comes to seeing the truth of our lives, the late, great author Vernon Howard taught those who would listen that "The medicine is bitter, but it heals." If we would heal the hidden hurt in us then we must learn that the initial bitterness of self-truthfulness is the front runner of our ultimate spiritual betterment. Our work is to concede to the bright prescription of higher self-honest...
We are wrongly led to believe that life makes us into the kind of person we are. The truth is that the kind of person we are -- our life-level -- makes life what it is for us! This is why nothing can really change for us until we see that our unhappiness isn't connected with the event, it is the level of it. Let's look at this a little more deeply. We believe that we meet events and that thos...
Our present experience of life, its happiness or sorrow, is nothing more or less than what certain unconscious parts of us tell us it is. Before we can hope to change our life experience, we must stop trying to re-write the Book of Life and work instead to awaken ourselves from the dreams of the unseen storyteller within us.
In our quest to win freedom from the ties that bind, we spend most of our lives struggling to overcome vague foes that fade in and out, like the shadows that move across the forest floor each time the sun moves behind a cloud. Yet, for all of these battles engaged and won, for all the changes we've made in our lifestyles and relationships, one thing remains basically the same. We still feel...
A student writes: Can destiny be changed? It seems my destiny was to suffer and get all the wrong circumstances. I don't mean to complain but here I am almost broke and I just got money on the 3rd of the month, now I have to struggle to the next 3rd of the month. Why didn't I get what I was looking for? Sometimes I just don't understand. Please receive these next few words in the spirit of...
It is a Law: Not of Man's or of Woman's -- but of Life. Before you can have a different life; before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace and in quiet command of yourself, you must first be different. Being is everything. And before you can learn how to be different and change your destiny, you first must realize that secret place within yourself where your own future is created...