Genuine spiritual happiness and strength dawns within us once we realize that passing dark clouds are as powerless to dim the sun in the sky, as is morning dew to diminish the color of new spring flowers.

To be undaunted in one's spiritual search does not mean undefeated -- only that one's love of truth outweighs the fear of failure, ensuring that whatever stands in one's way soon shows itself to be the Way itself.

I am always surprised by your strength -- by how happy I am to be too weak to do anything except completely accept you. What is this power of yours? How shall I understand it? 

Are you a Gathering Force? When you come, do you collect all the parts of me that have wandered off high and low looking for you... somehow drawing them all into one place wherein their deep peace is that they once again know that they need never look for anything...

Spiritual effort is not the opposite of grace; the former is how we invite the latter into our lives, which can be summarized as follows: As goes my intention, so comes revelation... And in its supernal light, self-realization.

Until one is able to remember -- and then embody -- the realization that "I am" must come before "I want" -- then the old fears and tears over one's self must continue taking precedence over the possibility of one's (spiritual) rebirth.

Unseen by those who feel empty, rejected by those full of regret, and feared by those who resist change...is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, sorrow, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with!...

We can imagine, and then wish for what we hope will make us whole -- fearless and free -- but real wholeness, spiritual freedom is unimaginable, as is the path that leads us to realize that Divine estate.

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Resisting any moment that reveals a present limitation is the same as pushing away the lesson we need to illuminate our new possibilities.

Calling upon thought to collect or otherwise integrate your understanding about the conflict you feel is like asking the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle to assemble themselves.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we must first become consciously dissatisfied with our discontentment if we want to begin the process of letting go of it.

Nothing in this world can answer your true spiritual need to be kind, whole, and quietly happy as long as you consent to live with fear, compromising yourself in the now for the freedom it promises will come later.