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Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in a self-renewing awareness that remembers the following truth for you: no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

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Any moment of real change is the past made perfect through the reconciliation of the will of Heaven acting upon the will of earth, and in that union creating the birth of a brand-new creature.

The light we need to be free is always with us; it is at once a creation of life, and the Life that creates it... where “both” are revealed in every moment of life, inseparable from the Divine life within which they ceaselessly unfold. Enlightenment is one and the same as (a) conscious relationship with this timeless order of Being.

Blessed are those who do (what they do)... for the love of being a part of what they love; but few are those who know this Divine order of love, let alone what it’s like to have Love itself as their life partner.

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Every once in a while, we have the great fortune of perceiving a moment of such astonishing beauty, or harmony, that we all but lose ourselves within it. But what is far more amazing than any such vision is this breathtaking fact: were it not for our mysterious capacity to perfectly reflect that moment -- to be one with it in heart, mind, and soul -- there would be no beauty or harmony to behold.

Part 2

The present moment and our awareness of it are one consciousness, much in the same way as the eye of the beholder shares an awareness of both the mirror, and the object it reflects.

The fear of silent immensity belongs to a lower nature attached to, and dependent on dividing life up into separate experiences in order to generate a familiar, continuing sense of self. Which begs the question: who or what needs to be special when -- in the revelation of any Divine impression -- it's evident that everything is (special) by right of its existence.

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What is Limitless hides within, and just behind limitation. So anyone who will agree to stand, patiently, within the quiet awareness of any painful sense of inadequacy -- refusing to bow before it -- will soon be crowned with a new and unimaginable strength.

Part 2

When it comes to self-realization, and being liberated from our former limitations so that we can go beyond who and what we have been up until that time, the deal is non-negotiable: first comes our gradual awakening to what no longer works for us, attended to by our inner work to release the same. Then, and only then, dawns the discovery and realization of what is -- in all cases -- a new and higher order of being.

Part 3

Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you’re given to see -- as a result of your inner work -- 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 its waters... only in another order of time.

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To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

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Real Life is creation revealing itself through (its) infinite changes. We can either realize our existence within this ceaseless movement -- as a designated player in its Divine design -- or we can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that our resistance to them proves we know how the story of life is supposed to unfold.

Part 3

Awareness is consciousness (in the timeless act of) realizing itself as a silent witness to the creation of itself.

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We can’t be more than we are given to see -- and to be -- IF we agree to allow that awareness to serve its given purpose in each moment. Which is to do what? To reveal -- at once -- all that remains concealed (from us) about our consciousness... so that it might be reconciled, re-integrated, and realize itself as part of a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Part 2

The entrance into an unimaginable, incorruptible spiritual power begins with seeing that perfect strength is to have no need for power at all.



Part 3

Each physical body has its own level of awareness... but the spirit of (our) soul lives within an unimaginable, and inexplicable awareness of what is sometimes called (our) true "Self". This timeless, higher awareness is inseparable from its (own) permanent estate that reveals, without ever announcing its presence... all that is created, and that then passes through it.

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The world today: Those who can't think, criticize; those who criticize, think they see. Those who think they see, are blind. And those who live in the dark follow, blindly, the shadow of any beckoning thought that promises the end of whatever they fear will surely be found... just around the next corner.

Part 2

The fear of any imagined time to come... is the time of fear.

Part 3

It is impossible to be in command of any moment when -- for our fear of it -- we resort to some form of imitation to see us through it; the comfort of relying on any form of imitation may feel like it's protecting us but it is, itself, pretense... and therefore the secret source of many of our psychological fears.

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Every misguided action we take begins with identifying with a deeply conditioned, mistaken perception that whatever the moment may be we don't want is a mistake.

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There is no such thing as a safe harbor for any “ship” that runs for it in a storm. The Harbor Of Heaven is right there, in the middle of the storm; to seek it anywhere else is to sail into stormy waters that are secretly refreshed by every fearful thought or feeling that sets your course.

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10,000 anxious thoughts do not prove real whatever you are anxious over, even though they do seem to prove that you are real; there is no security in thought.

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Go through some fear you're sure you can't... and come out on the other side stronger, wiser, and with more faith. Go around any anxious worry or doubt... and never come out.

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Ignorance is not bliss: it is one of the driving forces behind the feeling of being made a victim in this life. On the other hand, self-knowledge is the only real source of security there is, as it is incapable of being made into a captive of anything.

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Allowing any painful thought, any dark feeling to eat at you -- by consenting to sit down with it at what turns out to be a "table of torment" -- serves nothing... save for feeding some unconscious nature that lives only to consume negative energy.

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An important observation -- giving rise to an equally critical question -- that most people would rather avoid than do the work to realize its liberating answer: have you noticed there's no place on earth where you can hide that some moment you don't want... isn’t still able to find you?

Part 2

Apart from providing simple food, clothing, and shelter for oneself, the entire painful belief that we must struggle to “survive” is a flawed, fallen human idea; it is a creation of a fear-filled, misperception of life born of having forgotten who we are, including the reason for why we are here on this earth.