Ultimately, most of us live in some kind of conflict with life, suffering through it, because we grasp after powers and possessions we’ve imagined as being fixed, as substantial; and, accordingly...that if we could just make these things our own then we—our life—would be made equally real and substantial; our pain would be replaced by pleasure...

The desperate search for happiness is the continuation of unhappiness. Happiness is never driven to look for itself. It is itself...

Our best ideas -- individually and culturally -- about the nature of strength have failed us... which isn’t to say there’s no such thing as unfailing strength, or true self-command. No, the fault lies elsewhere...

The strength of any negative reaction cannot be separated from the force of resistance we feel towards that “event.” And where does this resistance begin if not in some form of insistence the moment should not have unfolded in the manner it did?

If all of creation didn’t share something in common, something invisible... yet in some ways more real than the objects that reveal and manifest that relationship... Then how could the death of a tree bring life to the forest, or the storm-tossed waves that lash the sea cliffs serve to create and sustain the infinite creatures that cling to those rocks?

Here are three indisputable facts about painful negative reactions. The best way to study them, to prove their spiritual power as your own, is to take each one and make its lesson your own...

The only thing we are a prisoner of is the wheel of reincarnation: a creation of unconscious identification with a level of consciousness that first imagines, and then evolves the idea of freedom in a time to come. But, here’s the problem with this plan...

We live within a dynamic field of celestial energies whose natural opposition to one another is ceaselessly creating what we feel as a “disturbance” in our life: moments when primal active forces meet what naturally resists them, giving birth to an order of suffering that’s part of the process of creation...

How much like the lotus am I: without any effort of my own -- and seemingly set against any effort otherwise -- I find I am rooted in mud; stuck in the struggles and daily burdens of this mundane world...

When Simone Weil wrote these inspired words,“Love is not consolation. It is light,” she made clear -- in one sublime statement -- an ineffable, supernal truth: Observer & observed are One...

Welcome the following list of 25 largely invisible, and therefore mostly unrealized actions of love. Please note, as part of your study, the contrast between what Love IS... and what Love never does because its Divine nature is incapable of contradicting itself...

Fear creates the illusion that lurking somewhere just “outside” of us -- concealed in the shadow of some dreaded moment yet to come -- dwells a “power” capable of diminishing us...