The path to self-perfection weaves its secret way through the land of imperfection, where only the conscious awareness of where we actually are (in this land) changes forever where we stand.

Being in a rush feels like the natural solution anytime you're running late, but in truth all any anxious state really does is help hide a lower level of self that's incapable of considering the best use of your time, let alone what its unconscious "choices" are doing to you!...

Let every disappointment in life -- the appearance of every dark state -- be as the lighted wick of a lamp to first illuminate, and then to consume the attachment that all such reactions reveal.

Whether it's health, relationships, or some other heartache letting go is the true theme of this life; we can either agree with its great lesson, or resist it by giving ourselves over to negative reactions -- the difference being whether we awaken to a whole new order of ourselves or continue to suffer for nothing.

To see that the speed with which a part of you leaps up to blame others for your suffering... is directly proportionate to the pain you're in before you lash out... is the beginning of the end of having any enemies in your life.

Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.

It is impossible to feed a fear and find a fearless life, that is... unless we believe the best way to get rid of a mosquito that's buzzing around our ear is to go and open all the doors and windows in the house... so that it might choose to leave on its own!...

Spiritually speaking, blaming life for revealing a limitation of yours is like getting angry at the water in a swimming pool (into which you just fell) because... You never learned how to swim!...

No event itself creates anger (in us) anymore than a flame causes a moth to fly into it and be consumed. Events serve to reveal our nature (to us) by stirring and releasing from its un-plumbed depths some quality or character within it, bringing up and into us an awareness of its (unimaginable) potential.

Look closely at what a person struggles with in life; the actual nature of what he or she is fighting to possess, protect, or win. To what does he give his time, most of his attention? To what end her plans, the things she pursues and puts first each day? Such is the only real way to measure the true nature of anyone's character, including our own.

Hell is the compulsive pursuit of pleasure, powers, and possessions; it is keeping the company of those who care for nothing higher than themselves, who are driven to seek one distraction after another in the vain hope of protecting themselves from the uncertainty of Life's transfiguring touch.

There are times when there's more to be gained from "losing" a fight, than there is in winning it. Show me the men and women who enter only into battles they're sure they can win, and I will show you a frightened lot who have all but forsaken the possibility of "winning" a place in Heaven.