Part 1 Expecting nothing, real love forgives everything... Much in the same way as the sun shines all of its light into a darkness that comprehends it not. Be like the sun: shine on without expecting to be seen; this leads to the Divine realization that it's enough to just be light Part 2 One sure sign the willing aspirant successfully walks the true upper path -- and approaches th...

In any relationship, the one who is hurt most by the absence of compassion is the one in whom compassion is absent.

Nothing comes into existence that wasn't always, and already, a part of it. We can't "improve" awareness; neither can we refine compassion, nor strengthen kindness, or patience; the will to suffer oneself for the sake of another cannot be enhanced. We can only realize the presence of these heaven-born characters, and then work to return to their celestial realm, agreeing to instrument them to...

Whoever can begin to see the truth of the following insight, whoever will work to understand all that this revelation implies, will soon be free of fear, impatience, and painful anxiety: The mind asleep, to itself, is the trap...ceaselessly ensnaring each (sense of) "self" it continuously creates via an unseen set of opposites that, in turn, create the illusion of time and space that each cor...

The spiritual search for the "old nature" set against you... isn't a "snipe hunt." The source of human misery is not a myth; so that if you've yet to see the beast of self-centeredness, if you don't recognize this creature for what it is -- and where -- it lurks within you... then at least learn to look for its tracks. That way, you might one day trace them back to its dark lair, where lie a...

Part 1 The more some thought or feeling prompts you to rush, or pushes you to run toward a place where some anticipated rest awaits, the more you should work to slow down that you might see -- "I" to "I" -- the unconscious level of self that -- with one hand -- points to a "peace just ahead"... even as its other hand is stirring up a sense of anxiety from whose painful grip you can't wait...

Part 1 Being responsible for our negative reactions begins with becoming aware of them. For instance, until we can observe and learn what it means to be consciously passive to our own negative reactions then what else can we do but go on identifying with them and embracing, by default, the false perception that someone or something else is responsible for our pain. Part 2 Just as...

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

Fear -- any negative state that persists as a power to punish us -- is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear: Either we agree to live with these negative states, ever s...

Part 1 Those willing souls who remain open to what Real Life is projected to teach, who consent to receive those celestial lessons from whose humbling "cup" they would rather not drink, will never find the gates of Heaven closed on that glad day of their final approach... even if getting there takes a "thousand" years. Part 2 When it comes to true self-awakening, there is no esca...

Part 1 Until we realize that resistance to any event -- reflected by our immediate negative judgment of it -- is the same as refusing to see the meaning of that event, we will never know the Truth that sets us free; for what else is our experience of any such moment -- that includes the meaning hidden within it -- if not a ceaseless revelation of our present nature, and what it values abo...

Our resistance to any evil or otherwise corrupt character; regardless of circumstance; proves the presence of an unseen similarity; there can be no recognition of any exterior degraded nature that isn't born of our interior resonation with it. Which means...any sustained negative reaction is actually the unconscious action of that dark nature attempting to hide itself...by seemin...