Begin with realizing that the only time we can be troubled by the mental movies of our own past is when we agree unconsciously to enter into the theatre of our own thoughts and feelings as they roll past these impressions. Listen to this: It's your life. Nothing and no one has the right to your attention. Realize this and take your life back by refusing to give it over to the furtive self that loves reruns.

Start every morning being as quiet as you can while being as awake as possible to yourself as you are, and to that silent longing that you have to realize the Higher Life for which you are created. Take this intention with you into every moment of your day. Meet life from this wish, and watch how your wish for Real Life begins to be granted.

Listen to this beautiful idea. I tell you its the truth: We are created by the Almighty to be able to choose the company we keep at all times. This means that we need never agree to any self-wrecking relationship within ourselves. Keep up your inner work, and your wish to win a quiet mind. This wish, along with the truth I've told you, will deliver you into the deep quiet your heart longs to return to.

You are on an important threshold. Don't go backwards. Fall forward. What does this mean? When we see the inherent impossibility of the world as it is to fulfill us, we make the mistake of filling ourselves with a sense of despair over the emptiness before us. Don't fill yourself with anything except for the remembrance of your inner work and of God.

Here are five steps to new spiritual riches:

1) Walk in the direction of what your fear losing the most.
2) Put the love of truth before the fear of being without everyone and everything.
3) Never talk to yourself about what you see within yourself.
4) Never justify what you want to talk to yourself about.
5) Refuse to blame anyone else for what you see within yourself.

Take these deliberate steps, and watch how your pockets fill with real spiritual gold.