The purer the heart, the more protected it is by its own nature.

The wise person's prayer and action: that never a single hour, let alone a full day go by wherein not only do you remember your God, but that same moment of recollections do you collect yourself and offer all that you are to Him.

Once you realize that you can't separate some imagined fear from the level of self that believes in what it has imagined, you are near the end of your fears.

Spiritually speaking, here's the secret to staying "cool" no matter what happens: if you smell smoke and see a flame, remember there is no one to blame: only you can prevent setting yourself on fire!...

Here's the most important thing to remember whenever you find yourself racing to get some where, or rushing to the imagined end of some task: what you are really reaching out for in that moment is the ineffable shelter of a quiet mind: a peaceful state of Self that -- whenever you'll slow down enough to remember its Presence -- reaches out and touches you with an unmistakable assurance tha...

Practicing the Presence, working to remember the truth of yourself doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you, only upon whom -- what "I" (within you) -- they fall... and, accordingly, the purpose they will then serve.

At least twenty times a day remember yourself with this Truth: Who you really are can not be defined or confined by dark thoughts and feelings anymore than a light within its own shining bulb can be contained in its glass.

Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn’t necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that’s not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 30, 2017. It is impossible to live in a dream and to not be inevitably -- painfully -- awakened from it.

Agreeing to feel sorry for yourself is like slipping off a boat far out at sea and, just as you're falling into the water, grabbing the anchor to take with you so you can always have a souvenir... to help you remember your time on the boat.

Many of us have perhaps had the experience of accidentally nodding off while driving on the freeway. After coming awake, we suddenly realize with tremendous alarm that we just fell asleep in a vehicle moving at 80 miles per hour. At that point we do whatever we have to do to make sure that we do not fall asleep again. Spiritually speaking,

We awaken in the morning into the 'second estate' -- a state of being awake physically while still in an unconscious realm of psychological dreaming. Living in the 'third estate' where you can remember yourself effortlessly starts with working to establish an anchor in presence.