The more we struggle to fit into this world's idea of freedom, the more imprisoned we become for having assumed the shape of some fear that we may get left behind, or be otherwise misunderstood.

If we won't let love show us all that remains hidden within us - that hurts us, as it does those we would never want to harm - then it can't do its divinely appointed work of helping to heal us.

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.

The one who awakens is no more troubled over what others may think of him or her than is the sun concerned by people who complain it rises too early, or sets too late!

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.

In this short talk, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that to work in service to this world is to understand that every moment is bigger than our individual self-concerns.

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about how we do harm to ourselves and others with any action we take that has a motive behind it. When there is no self-motive, then there is only what is pure and good.