Falling into some form of stress or anxiety in the face of any unwanted situation is nothing more than our failure to realize the following truth: these moments are made for us...

You are the answer to the question you ask. To have this true self-knowledge -- born of higher self-understanding -- leads to a life without fear, a faith that grows daily, and the patience it requires to perfect your relationship with the Divine.

The ability to explain our fears to ourselves -- all the “valid" reasons we have for feeling anxious about “tomorrow" -- is not wisdom. Wisdom is the Light by which we see the following truth...

Given the fact that you do have a real choice in the matter, which of these two possibilities would you rather be...

Our inner work to be present -- including the attention needed to do so -- is to make possible this revelation: the negative experience of any unwanted moment is inseparable from the nature of the seer...

Spiritual liberation is not an attainment; real freedom is not an achievement, let alone the by-product of belief. (It is) a grace-granted realization that we are not who we’ve mistaken ourselves to be...

The spiritual body that alone can transform the pressure of unconscious opposing forces -- that learns to use them for the continued realization of its own innate perfection -- is further developed each time we struggle...

Only consistent, persistent inner-work can bring us to the threshold of the “Truth that sets us free.” And yet, the following is equally true: the liberation we seek will continue to elude us until...

Persistence of the conscious kind proves discouragement to be a lie. Only in the light of this revelation is the deception of discouragement seen for what it is in reality: the shadow of an unconscious self...

The past -- whatever its pain -- only exists in the present moment as a place of suffering due to an unconscious level of self that -- on its own -- first recalls that time and place of sorrow, and then resists the torment of its own conditioned memory.

Before we can see that "love is the answer" we must learn to be present to -- aware of -- and above all else willing to go to the heart of the one question that life never stops asking us in 10,000 ways, each and every day.

Nothing in the universe has the power to trap and hold the human mind in captivity other than the prison it builds for itself as it struggles to escape a dark world it has dreamed into existence...