The strength of any painful resentment we feel toward others has nothing to do with any troubling character we may judge in them; rather [it is] born of an unseen weakness in us that believes others have the power to either give -- or take -- something from us that we need to be at peace with ourselves.

The (spiritual) impetus to transcend our present level of self is granted in our first glimpse that what we really need is not a way to resolve, or outrun whatever punishes us... but rather to quietly -- consciously -- walk out of a dark and lower world inhabited by legions of self-limiting beliefs, including their offspring of worry, conflict, and fear.

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We cannot “make” things whole any more than the moon makes itself full by its own light. Rather our work is to serve as a witness to life’s ceaseless, concurrent appearance of fullness and emptiness and, by so doing, to unite (within us) the awareness of Timeless consciousness with the experience of its own creations living in time.

Part 2

To see that so much of the stress, sorrow, and regret that fills our life has its root in the mistaken choices we’ve made to avoid the feeling of being “empty,” is to start seeing the possibility of using that same fear to free ourselves from it!

Just as nature practices perfecting herself through the myriad creatures she creates to reflect her limitless possibilities in passing time, so the Divine manifests Its Spirit through each soul It creates who may, in turn, (awaken to) realize their role in the revelation of Its eternal perfection.

Part 1

We cannot live in fear of discovering the truth about ourselves, about our life... and hope to find the truth at the same time.

Part 2

Here's an immutable spiritual law: we will never know all it’s possible for us to be until we agree to consciously empty ourselves of all that we have been moment-to-moment; we must agree to see, and then let go of a self that can do nothing, and go nowhere other than in another circle created from the content of itself.

The only thing that worrying does is waste the time and energy we need to shed light on a painful sense of self that exists only for as long as it has something to worry over.

Part 1

Any form of (psychological) suffering that looks back into the past for its "cause" -- or to the future, in the hope of some imagined freedom to come -- isn’t just useless, it’s wasted.

Part 2

Here is the real “secret” of starting over: No moment in life can be any newer than we are willing to be as it dawns within us, inviting us to be a part of its Timelessness.

Whatever temporary “strength” we derive from any stressed, agitated state of mind -- as it empowers us to “go through” what it is pushing us to do -- is a lie. The only “power” this lower level of consciousness possesses is to deceive us into believing that it’s better to run from (our) pain than to turn around, meet it consciously, and see for ourselves the NOTHING it is -- and always has been -- in reality.

The judgment of anyone or anything is never a conclusion to the conflicted condition in question, far from it: all forms of judging someone, or something amount to an unseen continuation of the relationship being judged.

Before we can hope to know anything of Divine love -- let alone realize an unconditional compassion towards one and all -- there’s something we must all know but, in truth, don't want to: humanity hurts; everyone suffers. But for those (of us) who see this burden -- who would do our part to bring an end to this sorrow -- there's a great cost: we must do the work to realize -- consciously -- this pain within ourselves.

Any ‘certainty’ born of ascribing a negative meaning to an unwanted moment, or that goes on to imagine that moment as a prelude to even more painful times to come, is a false conclusion arrived at by a false self... creating a false sense of captivity.

True spiritual healing is never the result of an ‘achievement’ one celebrates as such; it's always a very personal, and often painful moment of consciously realizing the extent of one’s weakness. Yet, paradoxically, in the ensuing humility is a victory, but not our own; for now, we have gleaned a little understanding of how, in our weakness... is Divine strength revealed as being always present, forever perfect.