1. I believe the more I comfort and fill myself with thoughts of a “brighter tomorrow,” the better off I am, but I can see… all discontentment belongs to an inconsolable level of self that doesn’t exist without seeking something to complete itself. So I will no longer identify with its sense of emptiness. 2.…

The first step, and in some ways the most difficult along the upper Way, is the separation of the false from what is real; imagine what happens when someone you think is your friend is suddenly seen as always having been secretly set against you. The shock is overwhelming; and the part of you that…

What is right, bright, and true, never announces or asserts itself; rather it stands as an ever-watchful sentinel quietly serving to clarify whatever is out of place, in the dark, or otherwise false.

Our resistance to any evil or otherwise corrupt character – regardless of circumstance – proves the presence of an unseen similarity; there can be no recognition of any exterior degraded nature that isn’t born of our interior resonation with it. Which means…any sustained negative reaction is actually the unconscious action of that dark nature attempting…

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