All passing moments -- seen as being high or low, for or against -- should be realized for what they are in reality: just another reflection moving across the mirror of Time, setting the stage for the next revelation of a Life too great to be told.
In God and His truths we trust: and when we vest ourselves, our lives and hopes in Him and His laws, in return for our investment He refreshes and sustains our spirit. He increases our consciousness and so shares with us the impossible wealth of Himself.
Whenever you can see that you miss the mark... it isn't you that has fallen. What's actually happening is this: By the grace of God's Light you've been momentarily separated from a downward trending state of self that you were identified with only a heartbeat before.
Any psychological pain avoided always seeds itself into a greater suffering to come, whereas any such pain made conscious - agreed to be accepted for the revelation that it serves - always flowers into a wisdom that soon becomes part of the beauty of one's life.
Believing that the best way to win the acceptance of others is by bragging about what you own, name dropping, or mentioning some special place you've traveled is like hoping that hornets will be happy to see you when you knock on the front door of their nest!...
Anyone can chart a course to happiness, as millions of people do on a daily basis; but only the few -- who refuse to fall into despair after losing their way -- ever find what they are looking for.
Until we can hold in our mind the deepest wish of our heart, our own inattention only serves to actualize a string of fleeting desires whose power to please passes as surely does the setting sun bring on the chill of night.
Just as a frightening shadow cannot pass away until the form does that casts its scary appearance, neither can we hope to go beyond our own dark inner states until we voluntarily transcend the level of self that gives rise to them.
If we continue looking for a sense of our self in the various temporary worlds we've created to find ourselves within, all we can hope to find therein is a sense of futility, frustration and ever-fleeting happiness whose flip side is sorrow.
I am an addict and have been involved in a bad relationship. I have listened to you and it has encouraged me to dig much deeper to find out why I would stay in such an unhappy relationship. Two things came up. One is that I am terrified to be with my own company as I don't like "me," and second, a lie: the promise of a day when I can finally rest and be taken care of. I have found strength in...
Student Talks: 04/17/2026 - Passing time reveals the true nature of thought to be naught but grains of sand, endlessly spilling themselves out of--and back into--the nothingness from out of which they have come.