The untold great spiritual secret concerning self-transformation is that we grow in proportion to our awareness of what we can no longer be.
Thank you, Father, for opening my eyes to see... I am never more blind than when all I see is who or what is to blame for my pain...
To grow into a new and higher order of peace we must remember at the first sign of resisting some unwanted moment that we must work to detect and dismiss any tendency we have to identify with that negative reaction...
Anybody can do what everybody else does. And what is it that most of us do, whether we want to admit it or not? We usually do the minimum to get the maximum. We can see it everywhere in the world. It's part of a culture today. But we can do so much better than that, and we must if we're going to change our destiny.
We're often led to act against ourselves by an undetected weakness that goes before us -- trying to pass itself off to others -- as a strength. This is secret self-sabotage. It sinks us in our personal and business relationships as surely as a torpedo wrecks the ship it strikes. Any person you feel the need to control or dominate -- so that he or she will treat you as you "think" you should b...
The next time you want to go ahead with any project -- whether it's designing a rocket ship, or finally getting around to repairing your favorite rocking chair -- and you start to feel those old familiar doubts, dreads, or doldrums rising up to block your way, just walk right through them.
Whenever we're anxious or rushing around, we are not in command of ourselves; seen clearly, it's evident that something within us has taken charge of our life and is telling us that if we can just get here or do this, then we'll be free. So we give ourselves, willingly, to this inner taskmaster whose hardened hands push us -- over and over again -- to rush, rush, rush. Why? "Because then w...
There is no such thing as independence without responsibility. And there is no such thing as responsibility that doesn't have a cost. People today want their freedom for nothing: "I don't want to work for what I have. You owe it to me." Such is the condition and the downward trend of physical existence. Even spiritually, people want to go somewhere and get tapped on the head with a peacock fea...
When you think of a single beautiful flower in springtime -- while it may stand with petals and leaves that look a certain way -- you'll never find a single flower the same as any other flower. Can you understand that the life of that flower is not the life alone that you see coming out of the ground? That flower belongs to a much greater life than the individual expression that you say is beautiful.
With love... all things are possible! Whatever you desire deep down in your heart: success, joy, peace, wisdom -- love is the one power that can make it real for you. After all, what can't be accomplished by the power of love? Love gives us: * The strength to go far beyond what we would normally do * The ability to make sacrifices for something...
The "hard" part of this practicing of presence in the now is that our habitual mind, the false self, wants to know itself through one thought or another.
One reason why negative states sneak in so easily to steal our peace is that we have been conditioned to believe in their right to punish us.