The whole idea of learning to live with "controlled stress" is like believing that not only are you in control of a war you didn't start, but that you're on the winning side...

Until we can withstand uncertainty without escaping into explanation, fantasy, or any other familiar form of psychological avoidance, we cannot discover what lies beyond it.

Every movement we make is determined before we are conscious of it; yet, absorbed in the minutia of life, we do not see this. And what is true of our actions is true of our thoughts and emotions as well: we are the manifestation of a Divine, still, and silent Light in timeless motion.

I will be with you until the end of time, but if you look for me in (passing) time, you will not find me there...

Any real spiritual shock is alchemical; atomic in nature. The energy it releases alters consciousness from the inside-out, changing everything about you... including the way you breathe...

We shall find life’s unending opening only when -- and as -- we agree to enter into and explore what seems closed, and at an end...

We can’t interfere with the inexplicable flow of God’s life, and realize our part in its revelation at the same time; we either learn to move with it, or suffer for being set against it...

I can't speak to you of life without speaking to you of death; not the death we fear, but the fear we have of it. For to live in fear is to die in slow motion...

Awareness of the moment is our consciousness of it. So, the more aware we can be of the whole of our consciousness in any moment, the less there is for us to think about -- let alone try to do, because awareness cannot act against itself. Why? Because the light of awareness isn't divided into what it is aware of, and what it knows about it...

Most people are so afraid of dying they are unable to see that agreeing to identify with any imagined state of self is itself a form of death unfolding in slow motion...

Looking to any reaction to resolve, or otherwise reconcile a negative reaction is like chasing a shadow to find the light...

Until we can withstand uncertainty without escaping into explanation, fantasy, or any other familiar form of psychological avoidance, we cannot discover what lies beyond it.