Sensation is but an echo -- a shadow cast by the Real. It belongs to life, yet it is not Life itself. Mistaking sensation for Life... is like mistaking a shadow for the sun whose light lends it form, and from which it has been cast.

The real cause of any fear, anxiety, or dark emotion isn’t because of some unwanted condition that appears before our eyes -- it hides behind them...

There is no condition in our life -- immediately present, or apparently lingering -- that isn't perfectly suited to help us change the way we see, understand, and ultimately transcend... not just every experience we may have in life, but the level of consciousness responsible for its appearance.

We can't change others -- or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds -- but we can work to place one less demand on both...

Negative states are never positive; they seem to empower us in times of trial, but in truth they blind us, isolate us, and steal from us our right to see that we are never more powerless than when identified with any form of anxiety, anger, or fear.

Learn to answer the true need of the moment by attending only to what it asks of you -- and, inseparable from this new intention, to drop any troubled question posed by a disquieted mind that can’t see, let alone realize, how it disturbs itself seeking relief from its own unrest!

Show me the one who governs his or her own thoughts and feelings, and I will show you someone who lives in a world unclouded by worry and fear.

While it's impossible to be entirely free of a psychological body -- including the elements inherent in the constant appearance of its deeply conditioned reactions -- we are free to change our relationship to that body...

Our new and highest possibilities can only be found at a point in time when, and where our efforts to transcend our present set of possibilities have been expired...

A quiet mind never goes out looking for guidance because it never gets lost in thought...

The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

Here is a great spiritual paradox: none can hope to know the truth of their Divine Individuality until they have realized their all-inclusive similarity with everyone they meet...