True spiritual liberation is inseparable from seeing, and agreeing to undergo whatever these revelations make evident must now change in one’s character...

Without the soul there is no relationship to the Divine. Our relationship with the Divine occurs because of this tiny magnetic part within us that is capable of developing. We can't see leaves grow, and likewise we cannot directly see the soul grow. And yet, like a tree that opens its leaves when it gets what it needs from the sun, so does the nascent soul open up its sails when it receives th...

The missing spiritual key -- needed to forgive those who have hurt us -- is found in our own awakening wish to be forgiven for having been deceived, and then seduced into believing there could ever be a valid reason for hating anyone.

Until our gratefulness toward life no longer requires a happy feeling to hold its hand to be able to make its way out of our heart, we do not yet know the real nature of gratitude, nor its secret spiritual Cause.

Great prophets and sages alike have long taught that this heart hidden in the center of us -- our own physical heart -- is but a three-dimensional reflection of an invisible Celestial Heart whose outpouring life secretly animates our own.

Only what we are able to see as true within and about ourselves -- that true spiritual self-knowledge born of inner revelation -- is of any real use to us. The rest, whatever one imagines or intellectualizes is useless... sometimes worse.

A great spiritual paradox: the knowledge we gain of any weakness that lives within us strengthens self-understanding. To know the truth of this is to welcome those shocks in life by whose light we become more and more wise.

I sense a need in myself to step up the intensity of my spiritual work, but this "sensing" normally follows my realization that I am quite lazy and comfortable where I am. Is there a way to wake up to what I need to do next rather than to merely react in disgust at my own lack of direction? We cannot help but increase our inner efforts as it becomes clear to us that our spiritual sleep is dr...

That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity. For that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed.

Real spiritual responsibility begins with our conscious agreement to stand -- in full self-awareness -- between the force of any negative reaction and those still-in-the-dark parts of us that have given it birth... and that continue to keep it alive.

Spiritual ideas must be made into actions, or they become tools of comparison -- seeds of conflict -- and fail to serve their true purpose... which is to act as a kind of mirror in which consciousness may behold some of its secret possibilities.

You may be assured of this one spiritual Truth and that its Law governs the entrance to Heaven: God never asks us to do more than we are able to do, but he does insist that we do all that we can.