The harsh, or otherwise cruel judgment of yourself feels like it's part of what's necessary to perfect yourself when, in truth, it's actually the mechanical action of the unconscious mind punishing itself for not being as it's imagined it ought to be.

Any happiness we feel over the pain that someone else goes through -- regardless of who or why -- insures we remain a blind prisoner of the fact that hidden within our present idea of happiness also lies the source of our suffering.

Until we see that our negative reaction toward those we judge for their mechanical, often unthinking action is equally automated -- equally predictable -- we remain little more than a machine that believes it's different from another machine because of the keen eye with which we judge it.

The only true solution to that constant press of discontentment in your life is not to acquire more of what has proven powerless to please you, but to consciously detach yourself from that level of self that believes the path to contentment is paved by continually thinking about what is missing from your life.

No matter how it appears -- in any given moment, even in the midst of the most unwanted ones -- life is never falling apart, never falling down on you. In truth, real Life is always falling into place in order to introduce the next level of revelation, which is the same as the realization of your own higher possibilities.

The cost of starting over spiritually is not what I pay to achieve some distant desire, but it is in my willingness to let go of -- to dare to live without -- any desire I may have whose promise of fulfillment drives me to search for it in yet another tomorrow.

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Only in our awareness of a weakness -- by our ability to sense the presence of any negative, or otherwise self-denigrating thought or feeling -- is found the strength we need to die to this lower level of self that, otherwise... lives to ensure that we accept its limitations as being our own.

No one can say "no" to this world who is afraid to walk through it alone. The unseen cost of this baseless fear is not just ending up in the company of cowards, but that one may lose the possibility of ever coming to know the company of the Divine.

The only way to discover that you have never been in danger, never been trapped by an unwanted circumstance, is to realize that who you really are cannot be confined by any dark condition anymore than you can stop a rushing river long enough to see your reflection in it.

Belief may be said to be like the younger brother of faith in much the same way as the acorn is to the oak. Both must play out their lives in the nurturing darkness and then give way to their inherent elder in order to be transformed into that which stands in the Light.

In this life -- without exception -- moment-to-moment we each receive the rewards of being in relationship with the nature of the master we serve... And to be a human being is to serve. These facts are self-evident and indisputable. So is the Truth that each of us may choose his master.