The mind that thinks in order to understand life believes it can see, but (it) can't; while the mind that sees doesn't need to think to understand life; (it) has no need for belief...

The comparative mind can't complete itself because it doesn't exist without what it is comparing itself to, and neither is it capable of acquiring what it imagines will complete it because it is, itself, in a perpetual state of feeling incomplete!

If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides...

Doing the right thing, in the right way, begins with seeing the right order of things. All of life's lessons point us toward this simple, celestial truth. Through the pain of missteps and mistakes, we are gradually awakened to discover what has always been right before our eyes: whenever things are out of order within us, our choices and actions must follow -- and sorrow is the inevitable result.

Spiritually speaking, the Light of awareness is the universal solvent.

It's a great mistake to believe that negative imagination needs our involvement to trap us in fearful, conflicted, or otherwise angry states of self. The truth is just the opposite...

One of our greatest, least understood sorrows in this life, the root cause of an uninspired life, is that -- given our present level of being -- we have no other place to explore besides the valley of thought...

We are only as locked out of the Kingdom of Heaven as we are locked into our many mistaken ideas about it... beginning with the false belief that we already know the true nature of (its) freedom, including what's required of us if we ever hope to win it...

If we ever hope to know the nature of true spiritual peace, we must do the best we can to meet each moment -- as fully as possible -- from the whole of ourselves, and then witness the results... in silence...

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but the identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of division it creates.

It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain...

It is a big mistake to believe that negative imagination requires we be present to its calculated organization in order to imprison us in what feels like some fearful, or angry sense of self; quite the opposite is true...