All unconscious negative reactions -- with others, events, or with ourselves -- deflect this one crucial revelation: as long as we meet life with any compulsive demand or unseen craving, we can’t help but be painfully remanded into the hands of one self-punishing reaction after another. Anger, fear, and frustration are the unrequited bridesmaids of desire thwarted.

At every possible moment of crossing over into a new and higher level of consciousness, standing at the gate between each spiritual kingdom, there is a faultless, infallible celestial guard. His authority is absolute; it is backed by nothing less than the Balance of All There Is. He has but one timeless task: to assess, and then ensure that any soul seeking entrance into the next higher level of being has paid -- in full -- his or her debt to the lower realm they now wish to leave behind.

Understood properly, the momentary awareness of any shortfall in our character is really a Divine intervention; where, by a Light that “dwells in a darkness that knows it not” we are given a glimpse of a truth that cannot be known otherwise. The acceptance of this intervention initiates a holy transformation, and the realization of our liberation.

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All forms of anxious rushing through life are the painful effect of an impossible task: trying, in vain, to complete ourselves... by serving an incomplete, compulsive nature that always has one more task to get through before it can rest in its imagined place of peace.

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There is a momentary peace; (it is) the pleasurable, but all too-fleeting experience of a conditioned mind when the world it has imagined lines up, temporarily, with all it has hoped for; and then there is the Abiding Peace of a mind awakened to itself, one that -- having thrown off the yoke of its painful conditioning -- is not just at peace with itself... It is Peace itself. 

If it feels like the same unwanted moments keep coming around... think again: reality never repeats itself; creation is always new. To know why life seems to repeat itself -- and painfully so -- we need look no farther than to see how instantly identified we become with our (own) recurring negative reactions.

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There is an order, an unshakable peace we can know... but only if and as we agree to its Presence in us. And when we are aligned with its “ place" in Time, everything is done for us, exactly as it should be, in its time.

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One cannot create clarity; it can only be seen as already being in place.

We have no greater Friend in life than that small part of us that loves what is True. The more we are able to recognize and honor the fact of this matter, the more powerfully does this interior Friend step forward... And prove to us the value of our love for it.

Fearful, negative reactions see only what they need to see in order to run away with our life. But, we have another set of eyes that -- once opened -- can see right through these painful shadows of unwanted moments trapped in the past. Only sometimes, as when we first walk into a dark room, there are times when we must wait for our eyes to adjust to their surroundings... before we can see what we couldn’t only a moment before.

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We live within... and under an unseen Law: whatever we resist -- deny or reject -- about our past is destined to become a part of our future.

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Weakness always excuses weakness... because it fears itself.

There is an inevitable suffering inherent in any world governed by self-interest, and then there is a suffering born of dying to that level of consciousness that bears only bitter fruit. To become (as) One we must die to being two... where only by making that passage do we realize that (the) two have not been lost, rather that now we’ve entered the One within which all opposites dwell.

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There is no desire within which isn’t hidden -- much like the fabled Trojan horse -- some form of unseen pain that is its “partner in time.”

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Things are the way they are, because we are the way we are; the life we've made acts upon who we’ve become, just as who we become (in the throes of each moment) attracts the life we will have.

The mind, emptied of its attachments, fears nothing, while the mind full of wanting and not wanting spends all of its time afraid of... everything.