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Learn to turn the things that you don't want to do in life into deliberate conscious actions, and it won't be too long before you'll want to do the things that you've always tried to avoid.

Learning to see -- and then to deliberately take a step back from the unconscious part we play when we're identified with some mechanical reaction -- is the first step in learning how to play a conscious role in life... one that cannot compromise either the one acting, or those with whom he or she interacts.

A kite on the broken string,
That's the thing I am When I've forgotten you.

My mind unattended, drifting
...Unaware it's falling
Because you're not there
To hold it against the wind.

A kite on the broken string isn't free.
It's lost.

It often feels as if difficult moments in our life are things that we just have to "go through," but this is only half the story... and the lesser half, at that. In truth, each life event represents a very special set of conditions for which we alone have been created and then... are invited to grow through.

The one who learns to look within, to seek therein the Kingdom of Heaven, no longer feels the need to look outward... So that the whole idea of looking forward to some "better, happier tomorrow" simply ceases to exist for him or her. This means he is no longer bound by whimsical winds of passing time; thus free... he no longer lives with worry or fear.

What I am -- whatever its nature in an unwanted moment -- is one and the same as that moment I don't want.

It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until you see the parts of yourself that are secretly clinging to it.

In any given moment we must give all that we have to whatever we may be doing, for only complete action on our part has the power to teach us completely those lessons that life would have us learn.

Part 1

If you can't give the whole of your attention to someone -- or anything, for that matter -- then you can't listen. If you can't listen, you can't possibly hear the whole story. And if you can't hear the whole story, then it's impossible to understand your role in its telling.

Part 2

There are no lazy hearts or minds in heaven.

None of our thoughts – even the most sublime – have the power to change the fact that we are ceaselessly – in thought.

As such, we live in a perpetual dream of freedom that is the nature of captivity itself – an unwitting adherent to a level of consciousness that is – at once – the process and the pain born of being identified with a string of dreams that we mistake as being ourselves.

The great paradox herein is that it has taken all of that thinking – wasted, in one sense – to bring us to this same un-thinkable realization where the clearer becomes our perception of this same truth, the more definitive the action we are prescribed by it.

It's impossible to arrive at wholeness by seeking it one "peace" at a time.

The more you imagine a problem, the more real it becomes.