The false self is the master of making mountains out of molehills, because it loves nothing better than dark and bumpy downhill roads.
When all is said and done, there is only one freedom that cannot be diminished, and only one place where its abiding peace can be found: All that your heart longs for lives within your True Self. Your True Self is fearless, loving, and totally free. Realizing its unlimited life as your own enables you to enter a whole new world within yourself...
Part 1: Love is an endless journey nestled into a self-perfecting plan that can't be "seen," only lived; its never-ending path unfolds within a timeless Kingdom wherein everyone - and everything - we meet along the way is our traveling partner. Part 2: Every moment is a marriage made in heaven; why are you still standing outside the door?
Part 1 Moment to moment things happen in the only way possible; we can either live in denial of this fact or, by facing it, find that freedom and surrender always appear together in the now. Part 2 Just as darkness serves the Light that reveals it, so does fear (serve) the Love that heals it.
Part I: Further deliberation over our captive condition cannot liberate us from it any more than we can hope to repair a leaky faucet by buying a new plug for the sink. Part II: Better to wait, trembling, upon the open ground of what we love than to seek shelter in the fear of what will become of us.
Learning to reach out beyond ourselves -- to lay down the press of our own desires as a bridge so that another is afforded a way to move beyond a pain or problem otherwise impossible for him to cross over -- is how we come to know the Love that is the secret source of our own True Nature.
Seek first the Truth of yourself: there cannot be two firsts in our life, otherwise the first of today... becomes the last of tomorrow and, ultimately, what is lost is our opportunity to enter into a conscious relationship with what is timelessly wise, and perfectly loving.