Without our unconscious consent the past is powerless to punish us in the Now.
Only in our awareness of a weakness -- by our ability to sense the presence of any negative, or otherwise self-denigrating thought or feeling...
Whenever you make someone else's karma your own, you'll always blame them for it...
Our consistent wish and work to meet, see through, and transcend any old fear of ours... ensures we will be given the new strength we need to do so.
Our awareness of anything pure, innocent, and beautiful -- any moment realized as timeless and true -- is the temporary experience of the abiding union between heaven and earth and, in that same instant, to know ourselves as its witness.
The proof that every moment -- including the most painful of them -- is unlimited in its Divine possibility is that one soul perishes for the fear of them, while another (soul) is perfected, and liberated by the same.
Before we can hope to stop reliving any unwanted moment from our past, we must see that our experience of it is inseparable from how we ourselves have named it.
Unseen attachments, negative imagination, and unconscious identification with the body of their conditioned demands has incarnated a kind of dark trinity: a false sense of “self”...
We can either spend our life resisting painful, unwanted moments -- wishing they go away -- or we can learn to look outside of them...
To see that “taking thought” leads to naught... is the beginning of the end of all useless solutions.
One of the ways the unconscious, divided mind hides the pain inherent in its conflicted nature -- not to mention its inability to bring an end to its suffering -- is by...
Our greatest strength lies in our ability to realize that whatever may be the nature of some immediate worry or fear, it can be proven false...