Painful negative states begin their lives within us as undetected seeds of darkness that grow into clinging, tangled vines as they are fed by our unconscious identification with them. The light of higher self-awareness destroys these seeds of self-compromise as surely as the rising sun chases away shadows from out of darkened corners.

“Know thyself” is perhaps the oldest, wisest, deepest, and most succinct spiritual instruction ever given. In fact, it is our nature to know ourselves. To one degree or another, each of us is born with the inner longing to seek out and to discover our true essence. However, almost from the very beginning of our…

Why can’t we listen without conflict? Why is there always something lurking in our minds that’s often unhappy and dissatisfied with how the moment is going? “Things shouldn’t be like this; why is this happening?” There is never purity in our present level of consciousness. As we begin seeing through this lower nature that’s always…

To realize the power of living in the “Presence moment” requires entering into its flow; the nature of these living waters is a timeless intelligence that knows, regardless of how things appear… that everything is exactly as it must be in that moment, even as it carries within it the seed of a creation destined,…

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