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Arrogance, fear, in fact all dark negative states only rule and stain our lives as they do because of how distanced we’ve become from the immense and divine mystery of our own True Nature.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

Preparation, hard work, is part of perfecting whatever you’ve imagined you want to attain in this world. But there is a world beyond anything we can imagine; (it is) an intelligent presence, a “place” of powers and principles whose self-obliterating touch can no more be prepared for than can a mountain pine prepare for a lighting bolt...or a newly opened spring flower its first taste of the morning sun.

The presence of the Master is useless without one's awareness of the same.

Excellence, wherever... and within whomever you may find it, is always a result of effort... never by accident.

All negative emotions, but especially anger, are the offspring of one dark state...a frustrated desire that would rather set fire to the object, person, or condition seen as being at fault, than turn around and see itself for what it is in reality: the unseen source of its own suffering.

It’s widely believed that psychological pain is a natural response to encountering an unwanted moment, but the true –and secret – source of this pain is an unseen conflict inherent in our present level of consciousness itself; the truth is that the “self” that suffers this pain is revealed by unwanted conditions – not created by them.

Real abundance has very little to do with being able to give ourselves whatever we want, but rather with being free of the part of us that's forever wanting something better and new in order to feel new and better about itself.

The truth of our oneness with life only starts to become real for us as we awaken to see that in hurting others; we have also hurt ourselves and--that whenever we hurt ourselves--others suffer.

Perhaps the most deceptive of all the false gods is the one who condemns you for being you.

Discover the unseen relationship between always being in a rush... and how important it makes you feel to always be going somewhere in a hurry... and you've made first contact with the power you need to slow down and take command of your own life.

The true spiritual battle isn't with life, but in our work to stay in the midst of it when other parts of us want to run away.

The comparative mind can’t understand that perfection is not in time, but rather is the action of what is Timeless upon time and all of its creations.

There is only one thing that you don't have to imagine or struggle to keep alive -- and that is what you authentically love.

The key to the kingdom of heaven is never farther away from us than what each present moment reveals to us; for in truth “purity of heart” is inseparable from our willingness to see that things are the way they are because of the way we are.

A stone set into motion, rolling down a hill, goes only where gravity and accident allow. The same law holds true for any sense of “self” set off by a mechanical reaction; momentum carries it along until it crashes into someone or something that it then blames for being in the way.

Any mental or emotional crisis in our life is evidence of an "account past due." Understood properly, such pain reveals where we are holding on to parts of ourselves that cost us more to maintain than they are worth.

Feeling sorry for yourself is not an action...anymore than reliving some old regret has the power to change your present nature. Struggle with yourself; reaching takes disturbing the one who rests; yet, as surely as a seedling breaks out of her earthly tomb, so will you realize the world above you...once you commit to do the interior work needed to attain it.

In the grand scheme of things, everything that God gives you – for its darkness or light, pleasure or pain – is so that comes the day when, within you, is awakened the wisdom and will to give it all back to Him.

In this High Holiday Season, so full of self-created gratification, we should never forget that hidden in the shadow of all passing pleasures dwells their unseen opposite, some form of sorrow that -- sooner or later -- must visit the unwary soul. Yet... for our striving to remember this inescapable fact of life, born in us is this bright new understanding: lasting joy is found only in the realization of our True Self.

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