Starting out, the aspirant believes that his struggle is just to awaken himself. But, as he awakens, the aspirant sees an increasing need to serve others in their wish to be whole and free, as well. Then dawns the day when the aspirant realizes that his struggle was never just for himself, or for the few he met along the way, but to take part in the awakening of human consciousness itself: to...

If you've ever been in a condition where you've found yourself in a rut -- maybe you can't stop thinking about something, maybe there's a problem that you wish you could just get past but the conditions of your life won't allow you to do it, or maybe you want to make a real change but you look at your life and say, "It's impossible, the situation I'm in" -- in such moments, apart from natural responsibility (should you have that) to those who are dependent...

Here's the real reason why talking to ourselves about whatever is considered to be the cause of that "conversation" in our head is so exhausting: it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing...

Life does not come at us from the outside in, even though that is the way we've always seen it. Once we understand this, we'll see the mistake we've been making all along about the true meaning of strength. Currently, we have a list of things we want to overcome: our past; our failure to acquire what we believe we need; a pressing world that has it in for us. We've identified these...

When you think that who you are is connected to something you are not, you are identified with it. To make this clear, think about how you felt the last time you accidentally scuffed your brand-new shoes or tore your brand-new pants. It felt like it was you who got damaged! Remember? That's what it means to be identified with something or someone. It hurts! None of this is too difficult to und...

Whatever is created in time... is a creation of time; and all creations -- in, and of time -- must pass when their time is up...

If, at first, you will just step up to, and attempt to walk through some moment that you’re sure is beyond what you can do...

The more you remember this one great Truth in times of trial, the sooner will its power help set you free: Each moment of life unfolds as the seed of a brand-new possibility... But only if, and as, you allow it to show you who and what you can no longer agree to be!

When the pain of failing to "prove" ourselves according to some imagined picture we hold of ourselves is relived time and time again, we reach a point where even the suggestion of stepping into a limitation – as called forth by the appearance of some challenge – "reminds" us that it's impossible for us to succeed, so why try? In such moments – so shrouded by the shadow of pas...

Part 1 The purpose behind working to be present is not to put away what's troubling you; the act of being in Presence is to invite the revelation that the unwanted moment you're seeing (in that same instant) is inseparable from the nature of the seer. Part 2 The sleeping mind is a house of mirrors, and whoever enters into it, first enthralled -- and then blinded by what he sees th...

Learn the hard lessons and watch your life become easier... Conditions reveal our character, just as our character helps to create the conditions that reveal it in turn. This means that struggling to change some unwanted condition without first addressing the character within you that it reflects, is like blaming the mirror for what you don't like seeing in it. Learning to embrace the truth...

The power of a lie is no greater than the darkness in which it is received. This means that all we need to do to see through the lies -- to render the darkness powerless -- is to bring that lie into the Light. This will defeat the lie's evil intention, for a lie's only intention is to cover up the truth. And a lie is left to do that very thing -- to fulfill its dark purpose -- every time we le...