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

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

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

What is true never fears investigation; what is false ... fears everything.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

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

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

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.

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

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

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

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

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

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

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

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

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

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

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

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

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

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

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

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

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

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

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.

Love is effortless attention.

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

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.

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

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself ... then your love is incomplete.

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

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

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

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

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

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

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

We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

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

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

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

The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

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.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never again help anyone to feel as though they have a right to feel badly.

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

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

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

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

Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.

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

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.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is ... you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

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

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.

On the other side of resistance is the flow.

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.

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

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

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

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

The Peace you long for also longs for you.

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

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

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

As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done ... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.