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The quiet awareness of true stillness tells an untold story of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Our reluctance to throw ourselves into life with all that we are -- to abandon ourselves, come what may -- is born of the fear we may not be enough to succeed. But the truth is that within us dwells more than we take ourselves to be . . . and only by leaping do we learn of unseen wings that open only in mid-air.

When it comes to your sense of being a captive in life, held helpless there by conditions beyond your control, you may take heart in this spiritual fact -- but only if you follow it all the way to your freedom: a deep illusion has no more reality to it than does a shallow one!

To realize the great liberating truth that we never walk through this life alone, we must spend more time by ourselves!

The difference between learning to consciously suffer a negative state -- versus unconsciously succumbing to its darkness -- is the difference between learning how to saddle a stubborn mule to carry you where you wish -- or -- having to carry that mule on your back wherever you may go!

The only sure way to drop a problem is to never pick it up in the first place.

The real reason why life tests us as it does -- trial by trial -- is so that the strength we are yet to know can be slowly forged within us, as it is with steel, blow by blow.

He thinks he sees,
Yet, he sees not . . .
That his mind's eye
Views its own thought.

Until and unless the work to know the Truth of ourselves is the ground of all of our actions, then all that we struggle to gain in this world is as powerless to stand the test of passing time as is the sense of self born through its pursuit of what it would possess.

Part 1:
Any concern over what others may think of you is a secret form of captivity, an unseen prison cell created by the false and painful belief that you are real -- and your life worthwhile -- only if others say it's so!

Part 2:
The true individual is one who doesn't need the approval of others in order to know the peace of mind he finds in being just himself.

To wish against the success of another is to wish against our own happiness, because it's impossible to "want" unhappiness for someone else without first bringing that sorrow into our own heart.

When the love of God is your guide, you never step into a moment that isn't what you've always been waiting for.

We make first contact with the unshakable character of our True Self when we stand on the unknown ground of an unwanted moment and see there is no need to fear or to fall into despair.

The faster we go through life, traveling at the speed of thought as it races through worlds of illusion searching for resolution, the further we move away from reaching the realization that the one true source of liberation already lives within us, right where we are.

We must all do certain things in life. This is a given. Duty is duty. But as long as we feel a difference between what we must do and what we give our love to, we will never know the abiding peace of a whole heart. There is only one way to love life; and that is to love the One who grants us the gift of it. It is easy to profess such a love and another thing, altogether, to enact it. Actions tell, and not what we tell ourselves to excuse actions of ours that speak otherwise.

If, each day, you will use the strength you have been given -- to do what life asks of you -- not only will you grow stronger every day, but you will also witness an increasing willingness to embrace those tasks in life once thought too great to bear.

With the mind we can learn math, medicine, even creative arts, but the peace that is the heart of a quiet mind cannot be learned.

It is the source to which we turn, and from which we derive our strength that is the real test of our character; for in any moment of trial no one can be any stronger -- better or brighter, than what he loves.

Uncertainty is unwanted because it feels so unpleasant each time it appears in our lives. But, can we be awake enough to see its positively bright side? For as surely as darkness must come before the break of a new day, so it's true: before the new light of higher understanding can have its gentle dawn in us -- we must see that we have come to the end of what we know.

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