Between a reaction and our response (to it), we must find the will to repose. Without being able to enter into the timeless space between what stirs us, and what it reveals within us, it's likely that what we see as a wise choice (in that moment) will prove itself an action born of some ignorance yet to be realized.

The harsh, or otherwise cruel judgment of yourself feels like it's part of what's necessary to perfect yourself when, in truth, it's actually the mechanical action of the unconscious mind punishing itself for not being as it's imagined it ought to be.

This world of ours, and all that transpires here, is a school for our spiritual education. Like any institution of higher learning, it has teachers, lessons, and many levels of learning; all serve to make possible the revelation and eventual realization of a timeless love that both creates and maintains the cosmos themselves. Our heartaches -- whatever their nature -- are heralds of this high...

Identifying with any kind of negative thought or feeling for having realized, inescapably, the fact that you are spiritually asleep is itself, a manifestation of the same level of mechanical self over which you now mourn.

Seeing one's present level of self as it is, in reality, is painful only to the spiritually asleep self that -- in its dreams -- has imagined it is superior to what is now being revealed about it.

For the want of love, pleasure, or approval we often accept within us the guidance of a consciousness so compromised that it is incapable of discerning the difference between fulfilling ourselves and selling our soul.

No unwanted moment exists greater than our right to walk past the dark, or otherwise fearful parts of us responsible for that painful perception... as long as we're willing to meet, face to face, the lower level of self that fears change, and then work to use its fear to die to it.

Spiritually speaking, here's the secret to staying "cool" no matter what happens: if you smell smoke and see a flame, remember there is no one to blame: only you can prevent setting yourself on fire!...

Spiritually speaking... Knowledge, by itself, can change nothing real. Effort without knowledge is directionless. Only knowledgeable efforts reveal the hidden structure of God's Reality and permit us to change our relationship to, and within, that Greater Life.

The following key lessons are taken from 365 Days to Let Go. Use their insights to bring you nearer to true freedom... Here is one of the great spiritual mysteries of all time. Freedom is either found within one's suffering or not at all; the only thing one escapes who runs from his or her pain is the possibility of discovering its purpose and how to transcend it. --- Real faith and...

Inwardly, spiritually, moment to moment it is the quality of character that one enters into and that one allows to flow through him that determines the kind of character he will grow into and that grows into him.

A wild stallion was captured and put in a wood-fenced compound bordering the open country in which he once ran free. His first week in captivity he showed all the wildness of a once-free creature now penned; but in the weeks that followed, even the dried grasses once refused as food became not only tolerable but even agreeable.