As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can’t listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story...

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view! 

The purpose of a compass is not to tell you who or what you are; it’s created to give you trusted guidance, so you don’t lose your way...

Every step along the path (of life) is the first -- and the last -- for anyone who chooses to walk in the silent light of higher self-understanding.

Here’s why no negative reaction -- no matter how valid, or inescapable it may seem -- can liberate us from any unwanted moment it blames for its pain: all (lingering) painful reactions are the reincarnation of a dark nature whose “life” depends on their reoccurrence.

It's impossible to see, let alone walk the indefinable path of the presence moment until we realize we’ve been deceived into looking at virtually every moment of life through the “I”s of the past.

When fear creates morality, as well as the rules governing them, there is no longer morality... and it is fear that governs...

Most of us “give” back to life -- to others -- what little we do only to ensure we continue to get whatever we feel is fair in trade for that exchange...

We end the conflict inherent in reliving any painful memory as we awaken to see that no such time, let alone any tormenting thought associated with it, exists outside of an unseen temptation to identify with -- and then relive -- the unwanted experience of what we’ve agreed to remember... again!

No one can be “ready” for a real moment of self-transformation; but we can be awakened, and made aware of its immanent possibility... and then agree, or not, to cooperate with that process.

Every shocking revelation we are given to see, and to realize (if we will) as true about our present nature is -- at its heart -- an unseen act of mercy...