The only reason we live in the shadow of any fear or sorrow -- let alone agree to suffer the dark reactions that justify such self-limitation -- is for the absence of a Divine Light that would show us -- if we would only dare step into it -- that the threat behind any unwanted moment is as unreal as is the fearful level of self that believes in it.

Imagination, and the daydreams that it creates, act as a kind of a consolation, a buffer between us and the fear we feel as we try to find our way through a dark and often conflict-filled world. But, in truth, such dreams -- all born of unconscious imagination -- are a creation of fear, and therefore can never serve to free us from it.

Most of our fears are based in a false belief that life can throw something at us greater than our ability to rise above it, or whatever frightens us about it. But this mistaken perception is as false as are the limitations it imposes on us. Our True Self never fears unforeseen changes in life any more than the sun trembles before the appearance of a shadow cast by its own light.

Part 1

The futility and inevitable frustration of trying to “fit” the Immeasurable into our present level of consciousness is like spending a day at the sea shore, and then hoping to take the ocean home with us... in our sand pail.

Part 2

We live in a world the size of our present understanding... and all of our choices and actions in life are a direct reflection of it. So, when this understanding -- and the actions it gives us to take -- is limited to yes and no, fight or flight, good and bad... then our world is as limited as that understanding, and in that limitation of understanding is an unseen suffering.

One sign of true spiritual success is when, at long last, we realize that there is no one else on this earth we would rather be!

Two angels were working together in Heaven’s kitchen, each preparing a special loaf of bread that -- when all said and done -- was destined to become part of the Bread of Life.

As such, when came the right time, their light-giving nourishment would be shared with some spiritually receptive human being... that he or she might one day join them, and work with them in the angelic realm. Thus it was, is, and always will be, as ordained by the will of the Divine.

And when both loaves of bread were prepared, as ordained, the angels carefully placed them into the oven. But after they had been in there for a while... one of them started complaining saying to the other, “I have to get out of here... I can’t stand the heat."

A moment passed, and the other loaf of bread responded, in soft, but very firm tones:

“Of course it’s up to you... but if you leave the oven now you’ll be half-baked... at best!

Part 1

The more we will deliberately work to take time out of our day to remember -- and then embrace -- what we know is Timeless and True... the more aware we will become of an Indwelling Light by whose Divine grace is revealed the means and the way to be born anew.

Part 2

There is probably no greater treasure in all worlds than true self-knowledge; but the reason so few seek it -- let alone make the kind of sacrifice needed to succeed in their quest -- is because its realization leads one, inexorably, first to unexplored shores... and then to the endlessly open waters of uncharted seas.

One reason why so many of us spend so much time in a negative space, expressing negative states is because... we start there! After all, most of us meet life -- for the most part -- unwillingly: resisting, rejecting, or even resenting any moment that doesn’t unfold according to “our plan.”

When you realize that no one else on this earth can be like you -- that no other soul can know the beauty, sorrow, light, and darkness you alone have been given to see -- then you will no longer want to be like anyone else on this earth. You will, at last, be the fearless discoverer of all that is true about the worlds around and within you, and in the Light of this Grace... be set free.

When we seek this world, we may win some of its powers and possessions that are fashioned in time, but when we seek the Celestial, we find ourselves -- and that we have something within us which made the stars.

Our true nature can no more be threatened, let alone diminished by any event in time than can the timeless light of our sun be darkened, or overwhelmed by one of its own beams.

The truth is, we are never trapped by any experience. The painful experience of feeling trapped is the effect of the trap, not the trap itself. The mouse always blames the cheese…