Know this to be true: Real spiritual changes are always first within what you are, and then appear within what you are able to do.

Guy Finley talks about the unnecessary pain that is produced by a breakdown in communication, which is resolved by coming out of our mental dialogs and entering into a broader awareness that is instantaneous communication.

Struggling to change some unwanted condition in your life without first addressing the character within you that it reflects, is like blaming the mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

In the end, nothing we can win in this life can enrich us half as much as what we are willing to lose for the sake of living without fear.

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. Don't try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from it.

The fear of any imagined time to come... IS the time of fear.

The world... is not outside of me; it’s my reflection... that I see.

What else are the untold number of lies -- "large and small" -- that we tell ourselves, or others, if not a trap we build in the now... only to be caught in it later?...