Why can’t we forgive people? Why do we remain chained to that pain? It’s because “I want to know why you did what you did,” and so I keep revisiting the offense in my mind...

We are not only complacent in our imperfections, but have begun -- individually and culturally, accordingly -- to perfect, if not glorify the ways we avoid dealing with these weaknesses in our consciousness.

What happens in an unwanted moment? Just like that, in a split second, we look for a savior...

Life is an open-ended experience of meaning.  So, why isn’t it like that for us now?  Why isn’t this moment in my life as rich as every other moment?  It’s because...

Desire breeds tension, tension fuels desire; identifying with either... is like a flame trying, in vain... to put out a fire.

Every cell in our body “waits” for the life-giving oxygen that must be replaced within it... moment by moment... though it cannot “know” what it waits on...

If you don't know what thought is, you can't possibly know how to think. If you can't think for yourself, your mind will gravitate to, and then identify with the thoughts of someone else...

To see that I AM (life), and that Life itself -- unadorned, unattainable, and unknowable -- is, just as it is -- the Pearl of Great Price, is to be, at once, the wealthiest and the poorest soul on earth, and in heaven...

If you serve only yourself, you serve nothing. If you cling only to yourself, you hold nothing. If you hunger for the approval of others, you starve for nothing. If you wish to please only yourself, you please nothing.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which means there’s no difference between the eye that beholds and the beauty that it sees, then isn’t the eye of the beholder also part of what is always becoming...

Instead of being the passive instrument of a dark state, REMEMBER to be the active, impersonal observer of it... the sacrifice of our will and its familiar suffering so that we might embody a new Will that can’t act against itself...