Throughout time, the great sages and saints of the ages have taught that letting go is an inside job, a work of rigorous self-awakening that begins with self-honesty. The following quotations hint at the possibility of an unspeakable discovery that awaits all those who persist with their wish to be free.
Just as the sun consumes her own substance as fuel, transforming matter into life-giving light and heat, so too are we created to consume ourselves; to transform the base aspects of a separate self -- the many conflicting characters inherent in our divided consciousness -- into a single, higher form of energy that, in turn, enlightens, enriches, and uplifts all of humanity...
You can't learn how to be; it's impossible. But you can see through the futility of the endless struggle to make yourself (feel) real...
Dark patterns born in the shadows of life repeat themselves and -- by the nature of the forces responsible for their initial creation -- must grow a little darker with each (descending) iteration...
Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. Listen quietly for a moment: everything can change right now. Learning to hear this supreme secret is no more difficult than choosing whether to swim against a current or to let it carry you safely to the shore. ~~~ Real change itself isn't found in some new way to think...
We can either spend our lives shaking in fear each time an unwanted moment arrives -- trying to protect ourselves from it -- or we can use that same situation to see through the false self that believes being fearful can lead to the end of being afraid...
The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred is about the universal and timeless spiritual principles that lead us to the personal revelation of Divine guidance, and the ultimate realization of our own highest possibilities.
The more you know, the farther you can see, so take as long as you need with the following Higher Lesson and allow yourself to see something new about the true nature of discouragement. Then watch how a new and greater personal freedom dawns in your life. The only purpose discouraged feelings serve is to keep your thoughts on what you can't do. And with your attention fixed in this fash...
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The only thing a thousand failed attempts to find the peace we seek proves is this: some unknown part of us -- we've mistaken as being us -- keeps us looking in all the wrong places...
We can't change others -- or the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds -- but we can work to place one less demand upon both.
It never occurs to us to question our standing belief that the right order of things in unwanted moments is either to long for what we imagine is missing from our life -- and therefore the reason for our pain -- or, to protect ourselves from what we imagine may be threatening our security. But, the real order of things is an Undivided Wholeness that wants for nothing. And if our wish is to k...