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

Achievements in and of themselves change little in us; they are little more than a merit badge that tarnishes in time. Seen aright, it’s the suffering we endure for the sake of what we love that helps to transform and perfect our nature into something newer and truer. It is not so much what we acquire, as it is our willingness to pay the “cost” of it that actually enriches us.

The wise have always taught that within us lives a nature that can turn lead into gold and further, that while such gold cannot be sought after directly, all the lead one needs already awaits the one who will mine it. The foolish seek gold to make their leaden lives tolerable; hiding from themselves the fact that real freedom is something that cannot be paid for with any “coin” that one can earn.

There lives nothing real in our past -- regardless of how disappointing or painful it may have been -- that can grab us and make us its captive, any more than a dark shadow has the power to keep us from walking into the sunlight.

Awareness of the need to meet life in a whole new way always precedes the will (to be able) to do it.

The wisdom behind the old adage, “Look before you leap!” is found in this inescapable fact: no choice of ours, no movement, can take place in life that doesn’t cause everything else to move in relationship to it; whatever the nature of our actions, they must eventually return to act upon us.

Once we understand that all forces – even the seemingly contradictory ones – are secretly complementary, we are well on our way to realizing the secret wholeness of life.

Freedom is not created, which means it cannot be destroyed any more than the onset of night destroys the light of the sun; and we are never “nearer” to knowing this True Freedom than when we dare to enter the darkness within us armed only with the remembrance of this fact

Every once in awhile, we have the great fortune of perceiving a moment of such astonishing beauty, or harmony, that we lose ourselves within it. But what is far more amazing than any such vision is this breathtaking fact: were it not for our mysterious capacity to perfectly reflect that moment – to be one with it in heart, mind, and soul – there would be no beauty or harmony to behold.

Without our unconscious consent, regardless of what we may have done against others, or ourselves, the past is powerless to punish us in the present moment.

Without our unconscious consent, regardless of what we may have done against others, or ourselves, the past is powerless to punish us in the present moment.

It seldom occurs to us that whatever we persist with in our lives works to perfect the same, so that by allowing persistent negative thoughts and feelings to have their way with us, we unknowingly perfect self-punishment.

Part 1
We always seem so willing to sacrifice ourselves in order to fulfill some desire, and yet it is almost unheard of for us to sacrifice a desire for the sake of our Self.

Part 2
The sorrow of man is that he is only free from his hunger when he eats.

Any time you sit, think about, and "stew" over what someone did to you, or simmer in anger about some past event, the real reason for your pain is because you're cooking your own goose!

Saying “I” to the painful resistance you feel at the outset of any unwanted moment is like turning on a blender, wrapping your hands around it, and then thinking that your name is slice and dice!

In truth, who we really are is not something we can “know,” let alone keep...any more than a raindrop can know that its mother is some great distant sea and, for this knowledge, remain there safely between its shores.

The heart watered by tears of self-pity soon turns to stone.

Resistance to any negative reaction accelerates it.

Any achievement that doesn�t serve to liberate us from the level of self that measures itself by its successes is only a part of a prison yet to be realized.

Only when the pleasure of being by ourselves either equals or exceeds that contentment that we feel in the company of others, are we capable of being unshakably true to ourselves, as well as those with whom we gather.

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