No worldly acclaim or possession can ever make us feel whole, let alone free us from that irreconcilable fear that comes with feeling ourselves as apart from others, and from life itself. Only by consistent, persistent interior work to remain awake and watchful can we place ourselves in a conscious relationship with higher, eternal influences... under whose authority are we released, at once,...
Part 1 Unwanted moments in our lives have not come as some blind force set against our best interests, but rather to help us see what's needed to realize them! Part 2 He alone is free who never has an ax to grind with who -- or what -- he is, and who always sees the Good in whatever he's given... in each and every moment of his life.
The answer as to what is the best use of one's life is found in being present enough to oneself to detect and reject all of those useless thoughts and feelings that undermine our higher possibilities. Only then do we realize that letting go of these limitations is the same as serving our own highest interests, for our greatest potential is to be free!...
Part 1: If putting yourself first had any real power to grant you true liberty – a way to make you content, then – for all you've given to yourself – shouldn't you be happy and free by now? Part 2: Asking God to help you -- without first doing the interior work of seeing and admitting the truth of yourself to yourself -- is like sending someone else to church or temp
For those who persist with their wish -- and their interior work to know the truth that sets them free -- there are no dead ends... because every road followed to its natural conclusion leads to new self-revelation; this is the moment when, and only in our willingness to embrace the higher self-understanding we find there -- does the flowering of self-negation bring forth the timeless fruit...
It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain...
In our life, upon this earth, suffering is not an option - but what this suffering makes of us is our choice. We may either continue to resist our given pain, following the endless paths it produces paved with 10,000 empty promises--or--we may do the difficult inner work of discovering the secret purpose of our soul's sufferings and, for our efforts, come to be set Free of all self-induced fe...