An inner place of safety exists. If we stand in that new position, no dark feelings can affect us. That position has always been there, waiting for us to find it. It is the place where the True Self resides. But we have mistakenly believed that only two options were open to us: to either stand and suffer, or run away and suffer, with our problems in constant pursuit. We always listened to the...

We are a peculiar race of beings. On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong. This is a paralyzing contradiction...

The real adversary in our lives, that proverbial thorn in our side that leaves us aching and angry, and then sends us looking for someone to blame, is not what we have always believed. It is not something "out there." It's something "in here": an intimate enemy.

Meekly submitting to any negative emotion in the hopes it will run its course and leave us alone just invites it to subjugate us again.

We can and must begin to understand the spiritual life before we can live it. But we can't begin to understand something that is above us until we begin to see it.

The meditative life is not limited to sitting down someplace quietly, nor is it limited to someplace in time where we can control conditions so that we can experience something of a quiet mind. It can be said that meditation is the active relationship that an individual has with the whole of his or her life. Indeed, if we were able to see clearly enough into our own life, we would see some...

By changing the ingredients of our life recipe from false images and negativity to awareness and understanding, we discover a new sweetness in life.

One day an announcement was posted. It said there would be an open series of marathons and foot races comprised of various distances and degrees of difficulty. All who wished to test themselves against course, clock, and each other, were invited to compete for fabulous gifts and prizes, as well as for national recognition for being the best in their class.

It seems as though I'm always in a state of suffering. Not only do I feel this anguish myself, but I know that it cuts me off from other people. I feel isolated. How can I open my heart?...

It is never the people we are around that cause us negative reactions. These reactions arise out of what we secretly want from people.

Sometimes we feel discouraged because our past efforts to meaningfully change our lives have not prevailed over what challenges us. We think, why bother to try now? Perhaps we are disheartened because one of our main hopes for happiness suddenly proves hopeless. Maybe we get downcast some days because our body, or our mind, is no longer capable of doing what it once could in our younger years...

We are meant to serve, moment to moment, the Light and Life that never ceases from introducing us to ourselves; we are not meant to live in servitude to whatever that character may be to which we have just been introduced. ...And why are we thus introduced to ourselves -- through the infinite and ever-changing web of (our) relationships? So that we may know all what we are, and within each...