The punishing pressure we feel in this life is not because of what life is but because of what we perceive life isn't.

It was we, who in ignorance of reality, carelessly attribute weight to events that are without substance.

One of the most difficult aspects of true spiritual work is the gradual, but necessary realization of just how divided is one's own consciousness. Yes, it sounds good to be an inner-adventurer, to "boldly go where no one has gone before" . . . but in practice, it's another whole story. Our present sense of self is based, almost entirely, on a largely accidental mix of familiar thoughts and fe...

The following higher insights are rarely discussed among the spiritually uninitiated because of the measurable effect that their strong medicine causes in the soul. But not only do they help summarize a prescription for a free life, they also present the case for why we need such a healing. Welcome these truths into your mind and watch how their refreshing view of reality leads you to that unc...

What are we to do with what life brings to us -- that we are sure just isn't "right" -- especially when we can look out and see so many horrible things taking place on our planet? Getting stressed and struggling to correct the conditions seen as being at fault or to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view. This is not to say that we...

As we should already know; assuming we sincerely aspire to a higher level of being; our present nature wants little to do with seeing its own limitations. Instead of being self-investigating (as we're created to be), interested in discovering the truth of ourselves, our first inclination is in the direction of being self-deceiving. So that rather than doing the self-transforming...

To remember yourself begins with realizing you have been asleep, taking part in a self-centered life instead of the God-centered one.

Keeping the company of Truth is as simple as always working inwardly to be as truthful with ourselves as it is possible for us to be.

Starting life over is something we must do every second. We must not wait until we want to start over because at that point wanting to start life over is only our futile wish to avoid what has already happened. We are tied to whatever we avoid, so trying to start our life over because we want to get away from our sad-self -- or the sorry situations it has created -- is like leaping onto a sink...

The two great commandments -- that we should love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love our neighbor as ourselves -- are the necessary germinating forces that ultimately give flower to the potential for a human soul to not just reflect what the Divine has made, but to actually participate in the process.

The truth that sets us free is not for hire; it does not so much "work" for us as it is our silent partner, producing the new life we long for. This means that first, we must be receptive to truth's instruction in the Now; only conscious awareness of our aching can lead us to what authentically answers it, ending it. But secondly, we must -- ourselves -- be true in the same moment to what we know is the truth of that moment.

One of the most difficult aspects of true inner work is the gradual, but necessary, discovery of just how divided one is within him- or herself. It sounds good to be an inner-adventurer, to "boldly go where no one has gone before"...but in practice, it's another whole story. Our present sense of self is based, almost entirely, on a flimsy interior network of associated thoughts and feelings,...