Life is a Gift, a Light given to us to be used -- not as a power to perfect what we have imagined is our good, but to awaken the one who dreams in darkness and through this illumination bring it into Perfection.
The clock tells time, but its hands also show that times goes nowhere -- even though it takes a hundred parts in constant movement to impart that truth. The force "to do" what is Right and True comes to us only as we free ourselves from those forces draining us of our power to perfect the moment. We can dream our lives away -- always trying to make ourselves into what we imagine is "right and...
Work to solve the mystery of your self, and realize the healing solution to every suffering one must face in this life. But, refuse Life's invitation to true self-realization, and the great Gift hidden in this sublime mystery is turned into a misery that has no solution.
We affirm the Light of Truth -- not by professing its powers on sunny days, but in choosing to walk by its Light -- no matter how faint -- even in the midst of our darkest hour when all that we see before us is defeat.
What can I do to stop living in the past? My main goal in life is to be as happy as possible. What would be the one thing I could do over and over again every day to achieve this goal? I think I'm in love with by "chatter-brain." When I do come awake to the present moment, thought does stop. It's extraordinary, but before I know it, I'm jabbering on again. My noisy mind must be what I pref...
To be a human being is to seek. There is a part in us that is incessantly seeking something. We are never not looking. When we start out in life, we have inside of us this longing, this seeking, and we look for something that will answer whatever it is that has come into us that says it needs something in order to complete itself. For example, I'm eighteen years old, and into my mind comes...
Nobody begins self-study as an "A" student. In fact, real self-study begins with becoming aware of just how unaware we really are. Don't let this last thought throw you! It's wise to see where our wisdom was only an assumption. This allows real wisdom, real self-knowledge, to grow. And this explains why some of our most important first lessons come when we set an exercise...