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  • Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.

  • Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

  • Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

  • Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

  • All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

  • Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

  • What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

  • Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

  • Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.

  • Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

  • To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

  • The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

  • The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

  • The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

  • 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.

  • The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.

  • If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

  • In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

  • Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

  • All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.

  • It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

  • You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

  • Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

  • We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

  • The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

  • Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

  • When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

  • No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

  • Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.

  • It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

  • Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

  • Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.

  • A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

  • Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.

  • A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.

  • Love is effortless attention.

  • Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

  • All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

  • The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

  • Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

  • You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

  • Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

  • Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

  • Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

  • What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

  • Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

  • We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

  • The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

  • Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

  • Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

  • What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

  • It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

  • The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

  • The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

  • If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

  • What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!

  • The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

  • Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

  • Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

  • Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

  • Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

  • Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

  • Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

  • Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

  • Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

  • Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.

  • Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

  • We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

  • Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.

  • An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

  • Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

  • Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.

  • Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

  • Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

  • Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

  • Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

  • Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

  • Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

  • Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

  • Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

  • Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

  • Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

  • Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

  • Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

  • Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

  • Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

  • From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

  • I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

  • If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

  • If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

  • If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

  • If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

  • In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

  • Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

  • Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

  • Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

  • It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

  • It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

  • It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

  • Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

  • Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.

  • Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.

  • Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

  • Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

  • No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

  • No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

  • No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

  • Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

  • On the other side of resistance is the flow.

  • Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

  • One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

  • One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

  • Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

  • Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

  • Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.

  • Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

  • Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

  • Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

  • Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur..

  • See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

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