Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

The notion of a personal God is partly due to the need of the divided mind to be consoled by what it imagines is capable of completing it...which, by the way, can never be accomplished. No opposite can complete itself. So...(Religious) wars became the substitute for this imagined salvation, as better to hate someone else than to see the love one has imagined is powerless to deliver one from fe...

Any sense of discouragement that wants to drag us down into its dark world, where it feeds on the feelings of hopelessness that it loves to create -- appears when, and as it does -- for a single reason...

If we could only remember in those unwanted moments -- when we see where we have been wrong in life -- that this vision is granted us because we have just been visited by some New Light by which to see and know ourselves more truly, then one day we might come to welcome what now seems so unwanted. What does it take to welcome every moment of one's life? Love the Light!...

Love is an endless journey nestled into a self-perfecting plan that can’t be “seen,” only lived; its never-ending path unfolds within a timeless Kingdom wherein everyone -- and everything -- we meet along the way is our traveling partner...

There is no one problem that a person has that is not the problem of everyone. The bottom line is that the only problem we ever have is that we hurt ourselves. If we had the choice, we would all obviously say that we would like to stop hurting ourselves. But the fact is that we run into problems--run into ourselves--again and again. So what is it that is blocking our wish to stop punishing our...

There is no Love in thought; no wisdom in knowledge. There is no kindness, let alone compassion in any image; were Michelangelo himself to have painted the likeness of the most tantalizing loaf of bread ever imagined... still, it could do nothing to ease the pain of hunger.

Dyed-in-the-wool alcoholics don't care whether they get their next buzz from a $5 or $500 bottle of bourbon. In much the same way, our lower nature -- that loves and lives only for some kind of sensation -- drinks without discrimination from whatever "bottle" is at hand; it cares for one thing, and one thing only: that it might lose itself in yet another temporary titillation.

Whenever we can remember that we would rather smile about what life brings us than suffer over it -- that our natural preference is happiness, not hurtfulness -- then in such moments of being mindful of what we love most . . . can't we also strive to remember how much better it is, for everyone, to brighten the life of another rather than to darken it in our forgetfulness?...

Part I: Eight steps to inner success: Step up. Challenge the fates. Work hard. Quietly wait. Be kind. Don't hesitate. Love Truth. Die to what hates. Part II: Patient persistence in our labors, coupled with persistent patience through-out each one: these two powers serve not only to perfect the task at hand, but also work in harmony to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.

While the desire to be perfect runs through the very fiber of our soul, how to fulfill the longing of this greater love is a question few find the answer to, and here is why: The path to self-perfection weaves its secret way through the land of imperfection, where only the conscious awareness of where we actually are (in this land) changes forever where we stand.

Topics covered: You must learn to trust the love you have for Truth, as opposed to trusting the self that loves itself; Just because you can't yet do what you love, does not mean that love is not real; There is an intelligence that governs and sustains every creature that lives... at every level; How do we know that other people are wrong? How do we know that the moment should not be the way that it is? Because we live with an unseen knower...