One sure sign an aspirant has entered upon the true upper path -- and now stands on the threshold between the Kingdom of Heaven and (this) earth -- is as follows: He or she longs more for the whole experience of Life more than they want -- and keep running after -- the sensations born of separate life experiences.

Resistance, revelation, and transformation: all are mutually dependent. Which means... not one of these states of consciousness exists without all of the others.

You cannot protect yourself from psychological pain or disappointment and hope to court the Divine at the same time. The narrow entrance into the heart of heaven is a movement; (it is) an unknowable accord found only where revelation and letting go converge and merge, and from their union give birth to a new order of being that is one with all that changes.

Any part of you that wants you to feel bad, angry, or sorry for yourself, including whatever thoughts it may call on to justify why you must ache, is a secret partner of the very pain it resists. This unholy nature exists for one reason only: to ensure that you continue contributing to the suffering it creates, and then sustains with your unconscious consent.

The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to -- seeing the depth and breadth of one’s own weakness is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment. In more ways than will ever be spoken the consciousness of “helplessness” is next to Godliness... whereas fear is the helplessness feared.

One sign of true spiritual success is when, at long last, we realize not only are we (always) standing in the right place for us to to be in that moment but -- even more telling is this: regardless how that moment unfolds... there is no one else on earth we would rather be!

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You can’t be “no one.” The choice is to be someone defined and confined by the limitation of thought, or to be (the) One who sees and realizes -- without having to think about it -- that (the) true Self is indefinable.

Part 2

Awakening to the truth of Self starts with this understanding, and then daring to act on it: it’s impossible to talk to yourself... and be true to your Self at the same time.

There can be no end to what we fear, only an end to fear itself.

Part 1

Only when, and as the Divine gives the aspirant what it is that his or her heart really longs for, does he realize that it would have been impossible for him to imagine, let alone ask for what he now begins to receive.

Part 2

There is no “out there”... out there, as whatever appears to be “out there” has no existence apart from what's already “in here”... A timeless Light and Love that dwells in the very heart of us.

As long as even the smallest unexpected change in this topsy-turvy world of ours can grab and fix our attention onto something that leaves us feeling stressed and negative about it, we are a prisoner of this world... and play an unconscious role in its continuing conflict.

No one is obligated to feel spiritual remorse; yet, “it is written” in the stars themselves that all must eventually pay for what they have done against themselves, or others. For Justice through Balance is the great Law, enforced by a tireless, unfailing Love... whose final consolation is a pure heart no longer capable of inflicting pain upon another, or itself.

In the end, all forms of psychological suffering can be traced back to a basic single source: the false belief that our unwanted conditions -- whatever they may be -- are greater than our capacity to change our relationship to them.