Just as a those who climb mountains must, at times, reach above themselves to gain a grip on a narrow ledge, we too must dare to go beyond ourselves if we wish to reach, let alone change our destiny. To that end, we must never forget the following truth: There’s no danger in self-ascent, only in remaining who we have been.

In this world, there are three paths by which one carves out his or her destiny: cunning, industry, or love of truth. The “crafty” ones inevitably trap themselves. And while industry is good... it is, at best, conditional; all things created are subject to the passage -- and ravages -- of time. Love of truth, on the other hand, liberates... and it is timeless. And perhaps most telling of all: love of truth begins with love, leads to it, and ends there... all in the same moment. Which means the fate of those who love truth is to realize they are always -- and already -- right where they need to be to fulfill their destiny.

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There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore to a Life (that is) already complete, and that is to see without flinching -- and finally without regret -- the following truth. All of the eye-catching paths we first imagine, and then rush to take -- seeing them as leading us to a peace ever just out of reach -- always end right where they began: in a too-familiar sense of emptiness that then imagines, once again, what’s needed to fulfill its endless desire to make itself whole.

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Sometimes the touch of Grace is light; at other times, it can feel heavy, if not impossible to bear; yet its measured weight is always just right for those who are willing to wait, quietly, to realize the truths revealed (about themselves) with each Divine touch.

What is real spiritual strength? It is knowing that we need never (again) compromise ourselves in any way -- with anyone, or over anything -- in order to be at peace. (It is) a perfectly quiet confidence in the awareness that our existence owes no debt to any condition, let alone to the passage of time in which it temporarily appears.

Hoping to end the fear that accompanies us in so many of the unwanted moments in our life ­without first realizing the unconscious “machinery” that creates it is worse than useless; it’s like blaming the path we’re on for the pain we feel while walking it... when the truth is there’s a stone in our shoe!

The looming shadow of any negative spirit cannot follow us, let alone punish us in any moment we remember that ours is the divine right to bring it into the light of higher self-awareness... for therein no darkness can dwell.

Into what do we gaze when looking through a telescope or microscope... other than into the yet discovered depths of our own mind? For whatever world we explore -- inwardly or outwardly -- what is it we uncover there... other than a corresponding knowledge of it; and, if this is true -- which it is -- then where does this new -- yet (evidentially) regained -- higher level of understanding actually dwell? It awaits us within a timeless order of (our own) consciousness awakening to itself, and becoming newly self-aware.

No one who loves the Divine -- who embraces the truth -- need ever fear what life brings down the road; remember: the effects of passing time must, necessarily, act upon what is created; that’s what time does. But within us lives something Timeless, and its living Light can’t be diminished or darkened by the passage of temporary events any more than the sun worries about cloudy days somewhere on the earth.

The love that we realize in our heart for God is as un-measurable as God's love itself because they are secretly one and the same love. And herein lies what is perhaps Love’s greatest mystery: the lover and the beloved do not find one another: they are each other.

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By Grace we've all been granted a relative Forever; a share in a living “Time” in which to either find a freedom and permanent fulfillment that only Love can provide... Or to live imprisoned in the pain-giving illusion that nothing in the universe is more important than “we” are.

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By love we overcome death, for death is an act of love... not the end of it.

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True compassion, unconditional kindness is our Divine, but largely unrealized capacity to “love our neighbor as our Self.” These gifts of Grace are one and the same as (our) awakening to realize that, in reality, there is no separate self.

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Any painful compulsion to teach someone else his or her ‘lesson in life’ is the same as having refused to learn our own.

Until we’re able to see how the needs of others are the same as our own -- and awaken enough to witness a ­self-centered level of consciousness that would convince otherwise -- no one’s true need, let alone our own can be fulfilled.