Topics covered: Spiritual ideas are intended to introduce you to another world within you that cannot be threatened by any outside condition; Spiritual principles do not exist in order to save you. They exist for you to see how futile it is to try to save yourself as you currently are; There cannot be a negative reaction without unseen resistance. And there is no unseen resistance without identification.

Topics covered: Every moment is intended to bear fruit, but we are not intended to decide what that fruit is to be; Nothing gets stronger without natural resistance. Human beings have the choice as to whether or not they will make use of the natural resistance that is designed to make everything stronger; The fulfillment of your possibilities does not depend upon the number of possessions that you own...

Any part of you that wants you to feel bad, angry, or sorry for yourself, including whatever thoughts it may call on to justify why you must ache, is a secret partner of the very pain it resists. This unholy nature exists for one reason only: to ensure that you continue contributing to the suffering it creates, and then sustains with your unconscious consent.

Part 1: Refuse to negatively anticipate a problem, and you won't have anything to resist. Part 2: Any negative assumptions that pop up in us about ourselves -- that darken our aspirations for a higher, happier life -- are like sharp thorns on the stem of a fragrant rose: their only power to cause us pain is if, or when we carelessly close our hand around them.

Seems there's a bit of confusion as concerns some of the stories I've recently told, that they hold contradictory ideas. Let me shed some light on this concern with the following notes: Things often seem as contradictions to us when we can't see that higher understanding must necessarily include levels; i.e., something can be true in one world, but not always so in another. In this instance,...

All forms of psychological -- and ultimately, spiritual corruption is rooted in some imagined idea about the true nature of freedom; this aberration is a miscreation that gradually takes on a life of its own, metastasizing each time we resist the revelation that any sense of self derived from an imagined freedom makes us, at once, both a prisoner of that dream and its inherent suffering each...

In our life, upon this earth, suffering is not an option - but what this suffering makes of us is our choice. We may either continue to resist our given pain, following the endless paths it produces paved with 10,000 empty promises--or--we may do the difficult inner work of discovering the secret purpose of our soul's sufferings and, for our efforts, come to be set Free of all self-induced fe...

Part 1: All forms of useless struggle originate from the same unseen source: misunderstanding the true purpose of any moment in life over which you suffer -- uselessly -- in the vain attempt to change it. Part 2: It's impossible to change "what is" but... you can use the pain born of resisting any unwanted moment to realize the real reason why it appeared in the first place...

If only we would cease giving others Reasons to resist our presence, Bear ourselves With what we burden them, Leaving no reason for blame . . . Then . . . that great silent rage Hidden in the human heart Would have to be seen for what it is: Violence looking for a war. Such a discovery would awaken Within the discerning soul The immediate, most intimate need To be the emb...

What can't be accomplished by someone willing to suffer for what he or she loves, especially given the fact that -- in this world, or the next -- love always prevails. On the other hand, examine the lives of those who know only to resist their suffering; the power that prevails therein... is pain: a dark power that progressively blots out the Light, turning life into a dreary prison of imp...

Any part of you that wants you to feel bad, angry, or sorry for yourself, including any thoughts or feelings it calls upon to help explain why you must ache, is the secret partner of the very pain it resists. This unholy negative nature exists for one reason only: to ensure that you continue contributing to the suffering it first creates, and then sustains with your unconscious consent.