Here is one of the great spiritual mysteries of all time. Freedom is either found within one's suffering or not at all; the only thing one escapes who runs from his or her pain is the possibility of discovering its purpose and how to transcend it.

If you will proceed along the spiritual Path, even in the midst of feeling discouraged over your progress, you will make the glad discovery that no discouraging state has the power to keep up with any person who decides to put its dark company behind himself.

How do I find some way to feel good about something that I have no interest in? If I am trying to motivate myself, it means that I have no real interest in what I am doing. Why would I even want to try to motivate myself to do something that I have no passion for? Why would I run myself through the same loops that I have already seen as being empty? The answer is that we human beings have bee...

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Part I: No one sets out to find ways to comfort himself without having first consented to making his own discontented nature King or Queen for the duration of that search. Part II: Our spiritual sleep is upon a bed of thorns lightly covered by fragrant petals.

The purpose of true evolution is not for human beings to one day become free, but to reveal -- to "those with eyes to see" -- that Freedom is the engine of real spiritual evolution, and that this Great Nature already resides within each and every one of us.

In moments of our spiritual struggle with life's tests, torments, or dark trials, no Goodness we can hope to call upon -- to light our way or lend us strength -- can be any more successful for us than our willingness to place ourselves under its perfect protective powers.

Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth. And when, at long last we see this is true -- so that our first love in life becomes the wish to discover the truth of ourselves -- then each moment of every relationship serves as the doorway to the indwelling Divine.

The dawning awareness of how much you need the Divine in your life - to help open your heart, and to heal your mind -- is the same as "how" to ask for... and receive this Grace; and the more real grows your spiritual need, the sooner comes a Celestial response.

Nothing physical has the power to answer your true spiritual needs that are sown into you by heaven; with this evidential fact in mind, then it must also be true that the main purpose of our experiences in this world... is to lead us to realize this unthinkable conclusion.

When living within the limits of what is known is also realized as being the limitation of your spiritual possibilities, then there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that you have been in favor of discovering all that you are yet to be.

Whenever we find ourselves having some unwanted experience that is the last thing we desire, we should work in that same moment to recollect that this experience is nothing less than the natural outcome of what we, in our spiritual sleep, have continued to put first in our life.