Part 1

Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates... none of whom can figure out why they’re unable to escape the consequences of their (own) choices.

Part 2

We think that first there comes a fire, and then the sound of the alarm; but the truth is, the alarm is the fire.

Part 3

We know for a fact , or at least may have glimpsed the following truth: there is another order of understanding beyond what thought can grasp, but that -- on the other hand -- is not beyond our awareness of the limitation of thought... And, not just implied in this revelation, but inherent within it is the invitation for us to discover another order of action... that doesn't require, let alone involve the conflict inherent in having to choose between what we want and don't want in that moment of question.

Negative imagination is the preferred intoxicant of an unconscious nature that loves to first pour, and then... to drink, as deeply as possible, from its own dark cup of troubled dreams!

Part 1

There is a big difference between making a mistake, and thinking of oneself as being a mistake; any compulsive wish to be seen as perfect in the eyes of the world is a punishment that can never be a part of true peace and contentment.

Part 2

You'll know you are approaching the true meaning of what it means to be yourself when every moment, regardless its nature, enhances your love of life; and where no moment, regardless its nature, has the power to diminish your faith that all things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.

Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you’re given to see some low estate into which you have fallen. In turn, always remember: the ocean into which all rivers eventually empty themselves is always at their lowest point, and that this lowly place is, in fact, the origin and source of their waters.

Part 1

The path to our inner Home is hidden within each revelation we're given to see as being the truth of ourselves in that moment; its appearance is inseparable from the will of a ceaseless stream of celestial forces that -- as they move into, and through us -- integrate us into their living waters.

Part 2

We are not being called to be more than we are, let alone to judge ourselves when we see we have missed the mark; rather, we are here to discover all that we have been given, and how -- if we dare accept this unimaginable gift -- we will see it multiplied a hundredfold.

Part 3

You'll know you are approaching the true meaning of what it means to be yourself when every moment, regardless its nature, enhances your love of life, and where no moment, regardless its nature, has the power to diminish the life you have been given to love.

Part 1

The endless -- and futile effort -- to complete yourself in a time to come is as hopeless as trying to free yourself from a pressing hunger pain by believing the more time you spend reading the menu of your favorite restaurant, the fuller you’re going to feel.

Part 2

The justification of any compulsive act is a kind of unseen "kill-box""; after all, who would agree to enter into any relationship that, even as it delivers on its promise of a pleasure... is secretly increasing our dependency on what, in the end, is destroying our own highest, truest possibilities.

The greatest possibility for acquiring the Divine energy required to facilitate the transformation of oneself is found only in the moments of higher awareness that, itself, can only be realized  in the same time and place of one’s greatest resistance to that moment.

We can realize all we are meant to see -- and to be, accordingly -- only as we allow self-awareness to serve its highest purpose in life. Which is to do what? To reveal what is yet realized about (our) consciousness, that it might be reconciled and re-integrated, reborn, as part of a greater whole.

Real life is change; it is creation revealing its endlessness. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that our pain proves we know how the story of life is supposed to unfold.

Part 1

Any form of painful demand -- whether on others, or upon ourselves -- is born of unconscious attachment; it is proof of a level of consciousness that would rather cling to what has been, than allow real Life to help us see our True Self is not only the living incarnation of each new moment, but the eyes that see it take birth.

Part 2

Unwanted moments in life don’t mark the end of our path through it, let alone what we have yet to discover during our earthly journey; to the contrary, (they are) actually the revelation and realization of an “old” part of us that has outlived its usefulness, and that is being asked by the Divine to give itself up. Why? So that from its seed something new might be born within us, and we within that new life.

Part 1

The problem: we hear, but we don't listen; we see, but we don't sense; we feel but we aren't touched. The more clearly we understand the true nature of this interior imperfection, the more it becomes clear to us... where we must conduct our search for the missing half of our life.

Part 2

Before you can know what to do, the best possible way to answer any given moment, you must know who you are... and what you are not.

Part 3

Any half measure we take in life... is bound to be full of regrets.

Part 4

No moment can be any more complete in life then our willingness to attend to it completely; only by consciously completing each given moment are we brought into a higher order of awareness that -- without taking thought -- understands the actual celestial necessity of that moment. The light of this supernal understanding is the truth that sets us free.

Part 5

Whoever thinks he can see is as good as blind, which is why he can't stop thinking about whatever he sees.

Higher self-awareness is a sacrificial fire; both a flame and its light, it alone is capable of illuminating, and then consuming the shadows cast forth from the world of dreams within which, alone, they dwell; the light of this awareness is a fire that does not burn.