What is real luck? The following may surprise you! Have you ever been walking from your kitchen, tripped with a cup of coffee in your hand, and spilled something on the spot? "Oh, look what bad luck. I'm going to have bad luck all day today. I just know it!" Yes or No? Was it bad luck that you spilled your coffee? ..

The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to -- seeing the depth and breadth of one’s own weakness is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment. In more ways than will ever be spoken the consciousness of “helplessness” is next to Godliness... whereas fear is the helplessness feared.

There is no such thing as any Truth we may be given to see about ourselves -- even the most unwanted of them -- that isn't also for us at the same time. In the light of this growing awareness is born, at once, a new kind of spiritual courage that is the seed of self-liberation.

When it comes to your sense of being a captive in life, held helpless there by conditions beyond your control, you may take heart in this spiritual fact -- but only if you follow it all the way to your freedom: a deep illusion has no more reality to it than does a shallow one!...

In this video, Guy Finley talks about how trying to support an illusion steals our energy, as well as the energy of others. Real life does not drain a person of energy. Allow the moment to reveal the parts of us that are making this futile effort to be something that we imagine we are supposed to be.

Part 1 There are as many memory-paved roads promising to lead to a new life as there are old, time-encrusted thoughts looking for a way to escape, yet again, the result of all the dead-end choices they continue to make. Part 2 A great spiritual paradox: the freer one becomes, the less one knows it.

Our love for what is Right, Bright, and True is constantly being tested... Not only by that timeless spiritual Light that calls us to take its side, but also by the nature of that darkness created in its absence... through which we must walk in order to realize our intention to be whole, fearless, and free.

The spiritual body that alone can stand the buffeting of all unconscious opposing forces -- that ultimately learns to use them for its own development -- is further perfected each time we struggle, as needed, to remember this one celestial fact: nothing in this world (or the next) has the right -- or the power -- to turn our own attention against us.

Part 1 By love we overcome death, for death is an act of love... not the end of it. Part 2 Realizing one's spiritual helplessness never tastes good, nor does it ever go down easy; but, if our wish is to eat the Bread of Life, we must not turn away from the table set before us.

Part 1 Unconscious suffering is a creation of incomplete perception; it is the inevitable painful outcome of having mistaken the partial for the whole. Part 2 Employing self-remembrance, strive to practice Presence; (this) one action is the path of spiritual purification, even as it serves to reveal all of God's Kingdoms presently concealed within you.

Here is perhaps the greatest of all spiritual mysteries: The reason so many fail in their effort to find and enter into the Kingdom of Heaven is because its gates cannot be opened by anyone standing outside of them. Those who stand the nearest to God . . . are those who realize they've never been outside His Presence.