The soul that best navigates this world is not the one who seems to "arrive" where 'X' marks the spot... but rather the one who departs from all places known: for that soul knows it's created to sail the wide-open seas where there's nothing to be claimed -- or lost -- because all found therein... is free.

We must abandon all solutions about what to do with our suffering that don’t change anything... but themselves.

During this crisis, it is physically necessary to be vigilant: to keep the prescribed social distance from others. But, along those same lines, there’s an even more important spiritual prescription for our well-being: (It is) to stay awake, and to distance ourselves -- consciously -- from any part of us that would have us serve fear, let alone suffer for its sake.

A brief, but important glimpse into the truth behind the idea of “spiritual” poverty: only from nothing can God make us into something new.

Until we are fully present -- awake and attending to each moment as it enters our consciousness -- we dwell somewhere outside of what is being ceaselessly revealed. This means that to whatever extent we are absent from what is real, neither can our response (to it) be real; and so, it follows: if our wish is to consciously participate in Real Life -- take part in its endless atonement -- then our first action must be... to be real.

There is only one reason why we become emotionally negative, let alone surrender ourselves to embrace its dark and debilitating embrace: We have forgotten that we have a choice as to what we love, and whose company we keep, accordingly.

Once we can see that ALL forces -- even the seemingly contradictory ones -- are secretly complementary, we are well on our way to realizing the secret Wholeness of Life... where fearlessness follows (this) revelation as does the furrow the plow.

The mirror into which I gaze is not on the wall before me, it is within me... so that all I see (therein) is a reflection of my consciousness. To know this Truth is to throw open wide the window of the soul... That by the Light showing me this unity to be set free from the useless suffering inherent in the illusion of a separate self.

Just as beauty is not a concept -- and love isn’t an act of thought -- neither is the Answer to the Question of each passing moment something that can be known with the mind alone. Either the Answer appears with the question, or both the question and the answer have been missed.

We are never closer to realizing the next level of our own higher possibilities than when, by the light of a new awareness we see some old ‘darkness’ within us, and then agree that we can no longer be that which we have been.

If seeking -- even realizing -- the consolation of some comfort had the power to placate our appetite for pleasure, or if running from a fear was the way to throw off and escape its power over us... then surely, we would have realized this kind of peace a long, long time ago.

Real Life is a miracle revealing itself. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by (all) the empty promises inherent in the illusion of passing time; to see things as they are... is to be what you are; to be what you are, without wanting to become anything more or less... is enlightenment.