Beautiful Lily

* We are not intended to spend our lives being dominated by anything.

* What could be more practical then being absolutely fearless?

* Any admission that invites correction also asks for relationship.

* Every man and woman on this planet prays twenty-four hours a day without knowing it because no one understands that expectations are a secret form of prayer.

* Freedom from what is unwanted by you begins with awakening to what is unseen within you.

* All emotional states are temporary visitors, not selves. They are mistaken for self through a process of unconscious identification with their temporary appearance in the psychic system.

* As long as you continue to identify with each temporary emotional state passing through you, it cannot occur to you to even ask for the truly empowering internal life where the Eternal One begins.

* You cannot receive anything more from life than the way you think toward it. You cannot think toward life other than the way in which you see it. You cannot see life other than through the ideas you have about it. So... To change what you receive from life, you must have a new perception of it, beginning with new ideas about it.

* We strive for permanence but the very self that is seeking is impermanent.

* Everything in life is for something. Everything!

* Failure is when man and woman place their invented intentions over Life's genuine one.

* The feeling that everything is right in your life comes in direct proportion to you being for everything that is right in life.

* When you're for the right thing, the thing that you're for-and the part of you that's for it-make one complete thing.

*Before the truth can set you free from yourself, you must be for the Truth more than you are for what you've always mistaken as being yourself.

* Everything you want to change into secretly perpetuates what you want to change from.

* It is thought's principal preoccupation to have something always just exceeding it's grasp or in its hands that doesn't fulfill it so that even as it reaches-or holds-it must again have something "new" to reach for.

* The self that responds to the challenge or the crisis is itself a creation of the crisis.

* When you begin to actively explore the mystery of your own mystery, God himself solves the case.

* Since it is possible to see your past pains as having been unnecessary this means that the depth of your present unhappiness is in proportion to your willingness to be self-deceived.

* The fear of seeing the depth of your own self-deception is the first self-deception.

* The nature of thought is that it can only know itself by peering into itself-an action that causes separation even as it seeks to unify.

* Freedom is never a condition borne out of any state of affairs, but is the fruit of real relationship.

* On the spiritual mountain, only the unmarked path leads to the top. It is the untried way that is the true one.

* No intention, regardless of how high, how noble, can be any stronger for you than your ability to remember it.

* It's only the Light when it leads your way.

* The spiritual lesson that's hardest learned is what you have borrowed must be returned.

* The compulsion to teach someone else his or her lesson in life is the same as having refused your own.

* The real lessons in life are always delivered in the moment of honest self-seeing and this seeing includes the discovery that something within yourself is trying to steal these lessons from you. Refusing any life lesson is the same as refusing responsibility for those parts of yourself that are the problem.

* Dependency is any compulsive reliance upon something not native to your essence that provides you with a temporary familiar sense of self.

* How I think I should feel can only occur to me from the content of my past experience-and the content of my past is what's secretly behind my present sense of feeling myself incomplete.

* Most people are so in love with their own feelings of being loving, they never notice that they love nothing save themselves and that this "self" that loves and is so loved is nothing but illusion.

* Every person rightly believes in greater possibility, but the wise one pursues it now.

* You can't be taken over by an inner dialogue that you don't have.

* New life lessons appear only in the ashes of old ones.

* Blame does not work. Any solution based in blame only postpones the inevitable moment when you will have to blame again. There is nothing to blame for why you feel as you do outside of what you have yet to understand about yourself.

* Anger cannot thrive without an object or person to blame for its presence, but if you begin to understand that your anger toward others can't take place without you first having misperceived either that person's nature-or the nature of your relationship with them-then you would stop looking in the direction your anger says is its cause and start seeing that the problem really lies in the shallowness of your present self-understanding. This reversal of where you place your attention is the seed of a new struggle whose gradually ripening fruit is freedom from all negative states.

* Moment by moment, every human being on earth is creating what every other human being is inheriting.

* Having anything to fall back upon in this life is to have already taken the fall.

* What is the Truth can never be spoken nor can it be written down. For you to understand it, it must possess you.

* Fear in any inadequacy is the inadequacy feared.

* The greatest lie on earth: "I ache therefore I am real."

* The nature of the obstacles you meet in life are what they are because of the prize that you pursue. The self cannot overcome self-created obstacles, but only re-creates them with every seeming victory.

* When you really begin to pray in earnest to awaken to His Life, God does not reward you with the increased strength you're looking for, but rather with increased insight into your own weaknesses that eventually become the seed of the strength you seek as your discoveries cause you to disappear to yourself.

* To be spiritually asleep is to be unconscious of your relationship with life in the moment.

* Fear is the blood in the body of mediocrity.

* Purpose must define action, otherwise every action is random. When randomness rules, then entropy tries to resolve entropy, resulting in unseen deeper and deeper chaos.

* The person who thinks that it is a mistake to speak about truthful concerns because greater minds than his have already done so, or tried and failed, does himself an immeasurable disservice. Just as there is but one great ocean with innumerable rivers and streams running into it, so there is but one Great Mind, and any who learn to ask may mingle with it, earning access to yet uncharted regions where deep and sweet waters yet untasted wait to be poured out.

*Only human beings can get pumped up about how humble they are.

* The nature of what God notices about you is completely different than the nature of what you do to get noticed.

* We abjectly refuse that notion that many of our unwanted experiences of life are actually our experiences with life's justice.

* One of the twin bitter fruits of any closed system of thought is unseen arrogance and the self-righteousness that it seeds.

* The true and final flowering of insight is humiliation-and it's fruit is love.

* Only the path of self-reliance can bring a person to full reliance on God.

* If you've never felt quietly ashamed of yourself in a moment of knowing that you've just made the world a worse place, then you've not yet begun your spiritual work.

* Just as there are tides in the seas-invisible forces which set themselves into the waters and cause their ebb and rise- so too are there tides in silence, forces at work moving through the quieted mind which give rise to thought without being touched by it.

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

Whenever I turn from Thee

Please Father
Whenever I turn from Thee, Remind me
Of what I already know
About empty places
And vacant faces
The cost of rushing and finally reaching
Nowhere to go.

Please Father
Whenever I turn from Thee, Remind me
What this world holds without You
Smoldering desires
And laughing liars
The deep despairing of souls still clinging
To life untrue.

Please Father
Whenever I turn from Thee, Remind me
I have nothing of my own
But uncertain footsteps
To constant regrets
That all worth finding rests fully abiding
In you alone.

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