One reason the wind of good fortune is often found at the back of people who are successful in life is because these individuals are usually found moving ahead of it. . . in anticipation of its arrival.

Topics Covered: This world cannot answer what the soul seeks in order to know itself; The only times we resolve to make a request of God is when we are troubled; Because we think we see the source of our suffering with clarity, we also think we see with clarity the solution to it; We need true self-knowledge, if we're willing to receive it; The lower level of consciousness that we presently...

If we would only dare to discover the invisible laws that govern failure and put them in our service, then our success in our chosen quest would never be in question apart from the moment of its arrival.

Part I: The only thing that is hard about succeeding in this life -- regardless of one's chosen path -- is in what one has to do in order to prepare for it; and since preparation requires neither special knowledge nor unique or highly honed skills, this proves that anyone can realize higher and higher levels of success... if he or she will only pay the price of self-preparation! Part II: One...

The only thing that punishes you is the failure of your own plans to comfort and please yourself - a plan that doesn't so much fail as it proves itself incapable of success. To see this Fact is to open your heart and mind to the entrance of God's Plan into your life.

Real success is a fearless state of being in a conscious relationship with an Intelligence that always achieves its ends despite ever-changing conditions. But, if we're honest, this order of spiritual success remains at a distance we've yet to traverse. At our present level of consciousness, our mind is always active, trying to figure out what we need to put together in our life to achieve its desired end.

No moment can be any more valuable to us than our awareness of the possibilities unfolding within it, which means that real success in life doesn't so much depend upon what life hands us to work with, but rather into whose hands we place whatever has come our way.

Part I: Eight steps to inner success: Step up. Challenge the fates. Work hard. Quietly wait. Be kind. Don't hesitate. Love Truth. Die to what hates. Part II: Patient persistence in our labors, coupled with persistent patience through-out each one: these two powers serve not only to perfect the task at hand, but also work in harmony to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.

Real Success in life is not determined by measuring up to some pre-set social standard of accomplishment, but is found through the individual effort it takes to go beyond what blocks our way in the moment. Such a deliberate effort in the face of our own doubts and fears always proves these negative states powerless . . . which is the same as discovering within ourselves the power to be free.

Patience can be a great virtue, while learning to push ahead often proves invaluable to those who prevail; but only a marriage of these two spirits can grant us true success, because in their union we are empowered with a calm and steady watchfulness that is always ready and willing to act.

We are never more successful in life than in those moments when -- for having seen by a Light that cannot be compromised -- we choose to set aside a selfish thought or dark feeling in favor of serving what is Right, Bright, and True.