Part 1

Our spiritual possibilities in this life are endless as is our willingness to intentionally meet, and then consciously work through whatever limitations we may discover along the Way.

Part 2

Real life is not a “win or lose” proposition, but rather (it is) a Divinely ordained, ceaseless process of discovering new possibilities already within us... that wait to be realized on the other side of our unconscious resistance to them.

Part 1

The more we dwell on something in our life that we wish wasn’t so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in... are the dark dreams of our own sleeping consciousness.

Part 2

Trying to bury any kind of pain is like believing that we can escape an unwanted moment by simply closing our eyes.

Summary

Blame is the deflection of pain. Pain deflected is subtle misdirection. Misdirected pain makes circles. Circular pain returns. Break the circle of blame. Start healing.

Closing

Any pain we will face is soon erased... but only as we act to bring it into the Light of a higher awareness that fears nothing: the presence of Divine Intelligence that sees through, and then dissolves any form of psychological suffering that comes to darken our day.

We can imagine, and then wish for what we hope will make us whole -- fearless and free -- but real wholeness, spiritual freedom is unimaginable, as is the path that leads us to realize that Divine estate.

Part 1

It is inevitable, but nevertheless a truth seldom realized... until too late: any troubled thought that circulates through an unattended mind will eventually run into the outstretched arms of the very suffering it’s trying to escape!

Part 2

Here’s a great paradox, and anyone who can solve its mystery stands on the threshold of self-liberation: the only reason any of our troubles linger is because we’ve yet to illuminate the in-the-dark parts of us that keep looking for them!

It is an eternal law: everything is always being changed, ceaselessly transformed into something else; but within us dwells the light of a Divine intelligence that is the unchanging center of all there is, or that ever will be.

Whenever we can remember the truth that painful thoughts and feelings require our consent to punish us, and that these self-harming states are, in themselves, literally nothing without the powers we grant them, in that moment we overcome a world that has always conquered us.

To see that what makes unwanted moments feel so important to us can’t be separated from a powerful, but false sense of self provided by these same painful feelings... begins the process of separating ourselves from an unconscious self that doesn’t care what it feels as long as that stress, anger, or fear supports its insatiable need to feel important.

Part 1

We must make -- and keep -- a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

Part 2

It is impossible to know that anything is alive... until we are.

Living under the dark and painful yoke of any negative state can NOT happen without first having been convinced that -- somehow -- we need to carry that weight!

Part 1

Every wise saying that stirs the heart, or helps illuminate the mind, is a kind of Divine seed: each speaks in its own tongue of some timeless chapter and verse, but always hinting of -- and silently pointing to -- the Book of Truth from which it has come.

Part 2

Wisdom never gets old because its true nature is timeless; knowledge is already old, because it is a creation of time.

Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth. And when, at long last we see this is true -- so that our first love in life becomes the wish to discover the truth of ourselves -- then each moment of every relationship serves as the doorway to the indwelling Divine.

Most of us are filled with wants that change nothing about who we are, let alone fill the emptiness we all feel within. If we must ask for something, let it be for greater wisdom; for possessions and powers come and go, but Real Wisdom is now... and forever.