The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but the identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of division it creates.

Once you realize that you don't "need" those (dark) voices in your head to tell you who you are -- any more than you'd pick up a jackhammer to help you peel an apple -- you're well on your way to a new kind of independence requiring no one and nothing outside of you in order to feel whole.

Believing that avoiding the experience of an unwanted, or otherwise unknown moment is the same as freedom from the fear of it is like being lost in the African bush, crossing paths with a hungry lion, and hoping that if you just look the other way... it will too!

Part 1 Negative assumptions precede the appearance of a disturbing fear, much in the same way as a chill in the wind comes before the storm that it heralds. Part 2 Before you can know and win the freedom of watching some fearful state walk right by you, you must learn what it means to let it walk right up to you... without resisting its appearance regardless how scary it may seem.

When we listen to the moving compositions of a Bach or a Beethoven, we simply sit back, relax, and enjoy the music. We don't have to understand the complex harmonies flowing around and through us to appreciate them. Why? Because within each of us there exists a part of our own secret nature that, because it's already in a state of Harmony, knows when it hears something right. In a similar fa...

True nobility is not a question of birth right or social rank; it is the native estate of each soul that, upon awakening to its divine inheritance, knows the strength of these twin truths without having to think about them: justice and mercy are one, as is love and fearlessness.

The only thing we are a prisoner of is the wheel of reincarnation: a creation of unconscious identification with a level of consciousness that first imagines, and then evolves the idea of freedom in a time to come. But, here’s the problem with this plan...

Lock the following statement in your mind and try your best to never forget it: There is no such thing as a failed spiritual warrior who wanders onto the battlefield and is willing to meet what he or she must. Even if that warrior takes only one step before falling down and running away in fear, that warrior does not fail. You gain more in a moment when you are willing to meet what you must t...

Freedom from fear has nothing to do with acquiring powers or possessions, so as to change or otherwise control those moments that seem to darken our life; real fearlessness is in our divine right to take whatever is unwanted and to surrender it to that indwelling Celestial Character that loves whatever is brought into its light.This love casts out fear; this love has no regret..

Perfect peace is not found in some time to come; it has never not existed now. We are created to perfectly reflect this truth... and, in so doing, to realize its freedom...