Ponder the following insight for a few precious moments, and you may catch a glimpse of a formerly unimaginable freedom. But ponder this one truth long enough to realize the implication of its implied non-action... and you will realize a new level of self- knowledge that is the key to self-liberation:

People wonder whether there is a "Book of Life." Is there such an inscription? Have I been written into it? Where and how is such a writing to be found? For those with "eyes to see," here's a hint on how to find the answers you seek. It first appears in the form of two wise and well-known quotations that speak of one timeless truth: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and "A picture is wo...

What very few men and women ever come to realize, spiritually speaking, is that life is a ceaseless series of inner choices about where they want to live.

No moment can be different than it is; whether we like it or not means nothing. Our distaste (for it) cannot change even the smallest thing about what’s taking place before our eyes. But this doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible...

Taking a conscious risk involves making a choice to do what's true, in spite of what that choice may cost you.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how resisting any weakness that we may see within ourselves is the same as rejecting the possible flowering of real spiritual strength.

True freedom is not an achievement; it is our awakened relationship and participation with the genesis of real life.

What is behind the fear of unwanted change? The uninvestigated mind says that I'm going to sustain a loss: "he's going away," "the business is slipping," etc. The fear of loss is connected in our mind with the image of what had previously given us the feeling of succeeding. So now here's reality, and it's pretty different than our image of what should be, and we'd rather live with the image...

We have in us -- built over time as part of the construct of our personality - a literal host of demands. Things that over time have been thought over and over and over again until the construction of those thoughts becomes an unconscious attitude. For instance, if you think enough times, "Why are they doing this? I shouldn't be treated like this!" Gradually, you walk around with a chip on your shoulder, but you don't know it's a chip on your shoulder...