There is nothing better, healthier, or higher for anyone to do, each day -- in every possible way -- than to sit quietly, all by oneself, deeply engaged in the simple act of honest self-observation.

Part 1: Before you are a "person," you are (a) Presence. Your True Self is an impersonal consciousness: a silent, all-encompassing awareness that is a tireless witness of (its own) timeless principles and powers as they act to ceaselessly create and un-create all that we see and experience in passing time...

Real Love can never betray you, for whoever starts with -- and endeavors through -- what Love asks of him or her will come to know this greatest of truths that sets one free: Love’s end point begins -- and has always abided -- within you.

With love... all things are possible, because Love never stops giving birth to all that is possible.

What we see, and take, as being the meaning of any given moment -- including our experience of it -- is a direct reflection of the level of self being revealed by that same moment. This invisible relationship between the observer and the observed is the mirror of the Divine. And it is only in this relationship -- in this "mirror" -- that we are able to discover not only the meaning...

Much as a flower turns its face toward the sun, seeking the light and the warmth it needs to complete itself, so do we seek those relationships and the revelations that we need in order to realize the whole -- the holiness -- of our True Self.

We live within, and, at the same time, living within us... (is) a lower level of consciousness. This "in-the-dark" nature does not want to know itself, and resists any form of inner light that would reveal its nature for what it is in reality: something ceaselessly set against anything that might, by its light, cause it to see the truth of itself. Fortunately -- by grace -- within us dwells a...

The sooner we realize the wisdom of refusing to excuse our negative states... the sooner will these dark thoughts and feelings excuse themselves from our life.

Refuse to negatively anticipate a problem, and you'll never again have to struggle -- uselessly -- with what amounts to nothing more than painful moments born of negative imagination.

Part 1: All forms of useless struggle originate from the same unseen source: misunderstanding the true purpose of any moment in life over which you suffer -- uselessly -- in the vain attempt to change it. Part 2: It's impossible to change "what is" but... you can use the pain born of resisting any unwanted moment to realize the real reason why it appeared in the first place...

No image is alive. If the pictures we cling to had the power to satisfy the desire that creates them, then a picture of food would ease our hunger, and painting a smile on the reflection of our face in a mirror would help console our broken heart.

Only by coming to know -- intimately -- the Divine purpose of each moment in our life can we hope to play our part in the fulfillment of the purpose of Life itself... which is the only relationship in which dwells the perfectly fearless, unshakable peace of the Divine.