We all want the comfort of knowing that there are things we can count on, that there is something in this life permanent. Yet, everything seems to slip away from us; people, places, and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving us once again seeking something to give us a permanent sense of well-being. There is a cure for this seemingly endless longing. It is a spiritual one...

Here are two proven ways you can learn to work in the Now to ensure that you reach ever-higher levels of personal freedom. Our honest examination of these spiritual assertions -- based upon our own life experience -- proves our need to realize their promise. For best results, first meditate on what each statement means in and of itself. Let the freedom it illustrates awaken in you the remembra...

I went to a psychotherapist for many years who, when all is said and done, did not help me. I can see now that he was insincere and that he said a lot of hurtful things. This has left me feeling violated and humiliated. These feelings haunt me, and I seem to be unable to let go of the situation. Convinced I am worthless, I have become despondent, even suicidal -- which ironically are the issue...

Topics covered: All good things come to those for whom the good is all things; Conditions outside of you are not who you are; Events and conditions serve to reveal your consciousness and help you outgrow a level of yourself; We are asked to let go, not to run; The light is meant to show us our darkness; Resistance drives repetition, as it cannot learn; The root of our life is in something Divi...

Let no day pass without your wish on that Star. Stand fast, with Heaven in sight, though still afar; In watchfulness remain until... There you are! As is true with all living things, especially the newly conceived, if you don't feed and protect that nascent life, whatever its nature -- from the simplest to most complex -- it will perish and die. Knowing the above to be a fact of life on eart...

You can be self-enlightened instead of self-frightened. You have a choice. This discovery that you can always choose in favor of yourself is real excitement. You do not have to accept your present life-level. Life-level is what determines whether you sail through this life or sink in it. At present, it may seem to you as if there are times when you don't have much choice in your own life. I want you to know that this is a lie...

There is no such thing as a shaky situation, so any time you start to tremble, don't look around you for the fault. Look inward. It is the inner-ground you are standing on that is not solid. That seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem. It's your reaction that has you shaking. And that's why, if you'll become conscious of a fearful condition instead of afraid of it,...

I once had ample quiet time and meditated regularly. I grew and was more grounded. Now I live in a big city with neighbors all around me. It's loud, and the noise can be obtrusive and disturbing. I know we must participate and not isolate, but how can I let this go? How can I know if this disturbance and lack of focus is just a lower level of myself that I can and must learn to work through, o...

There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever. After all, if anxious thoughts and feelings had any power to deliver us to a place or time where peace awaits, don't you think we'd have gotten there by now? Let there be no mistake here: *When it comes to being in a hurry, what difference does it make how fast y...

Any human being who has to hold himself together is someone who is ready to fall apart. Trying to hold yourself together is a terrible way to go through life. Our task is to prove this to ourselves. The fears of falling apart can never be quieted by adding more pieces to your self, such as success or the hopes of success. With this approach to life you wear out faster, because you now have eve...

Almost every kind of unhappy feeling is the result of mistaking the partial for the whole. What this means is that when we don't see the whole picture, we are likely to act in a way that is self-defeating. One example of this would be that terrible sinking feeling that comes with learning too late, after you've become upset, that things weren't the way you were so sure they had been. That, in...

On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong, which is a paralyzing contradiction.