One key to liberation is eternal vigilance. Salvation is a daily job, a nightly job, and an eternal job. If you enter into spiritual discipline and gain a certain level of awareness, you are responsible for that expansion, and you are responsible for continuing it. You can't stop and "rest on your laurels." It doesn't work that way. You keep going.

It's true that some are more spiritually aware than others. But on whatever level you find yourself, that will be the level on which you approach the Father, the level on which you approach the Christ within. That spirit of inner peace and wisdom and joy is there.

Commitment really means that you both go for 100 percent loving. Don't expect perfection because it may not be available, and the paradox is that you still go for it. The best you'll end up with is excellence, and excellence in loving is almost totally fulfilling.

You have often heard me say, "Check it out. You decide. If it works for you, use it. If it doesn't, let it go." That approach can really be useful to you. Why? Because that's exactly what you're going to do. You're going to be the one who decides, and you're going to be the one who lives your life according to how it will be best for you.

Sometimes your highest good may be a little bit different from what you think it should be. You ask for the highest good and something happens and you say, "That doesn't feel too good." Yet later on you look back and say, "I'm so glad I went through that. That taught me a tremendous lesson; a tremendous experience came forward."

You don't get a limited amount of choices and then you're done. Better choices are available to you. With God all things are possible. Go for the best choices which are all for the highest good.

If you see disturbance out there in the world, it is a reflection of disturbance in you. If you see something you don't like in another child of Light, it is because that same place exists inside of you, and you recognize that. All of your experiences, all of your relationships, reflect you back to yourself so that you can learn to know yourself in greater and greater ways.

The longer we are living on this physical realm, the more opportunity we give ourselves to clear and release karma and, therefore, lift ourselves higher.

Just because you have learned something and think you're "there" doesn't mean that you can stop. You have to keep working at it. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. And vigilance means that you have to demonstrate being awake. Watch what you say because you may be fabricating an illusion that will then prevent you from becoming what you say you are.

When you stop mentalizing and ask from your heart for Spirit's Light to be with you, things around you change. Then those things, which seem so locked in and crystallized, can be released and altered. It's a great day when you recognize that the things in your life which seem inalterable can be lifted.

By opening up to your happiness within, you have a greater opportunity to bless the world with your happiness. When we are happy, we are spontaneous and open to participate. We allow our creativity, that happy energy, to move out into the world and touch others.

The Self that is real is happy and healthy. Experiences come to you for a reason; they come so you can learn. But you can "project" either a positive or negative interpretation on almost any experience. If you project a positive interpretation, you may find your life easier to handle.

Joy, dynamically moving through your consciousness, changing, altering, updating, making all things new, is indicative of the presence of Spirit.

I realized that at some point it becomes our responsibility to bring our lives present - in this very moment - and forgive and forget the past and live fully, 100% of who we are today. We have to! There's no excuse not to get up, get going and do it now.

The only true right we have is to our own inheritance, and we don't have to go anywhere because we're already inherited. That inheritance is absolute truth. It resides upon itself in itself, not dependent upon anybody's point of view or whether they like it or not.

Every moment of your existence, when you are a responsible creator, you do the things that will lift you into a higher consciousness.

There are two ways to go through life - either laughing or crying. Wouldn't you rather laugh? That's taking care of yourself. Believe it or not, this world has a lot of discouraging things in it. But you can use everything to your advantage and lift yourself up out of the discouragement. There is not one thing that has been placed on this planet that you cannot use to lift yourself.

The journey of your Soul may seem in some ways to be precarious. Yet the Soul is worth whatever we encounter along the way. We're not having experiences in order to encounter nightmares. We're having experiences in order to encounter the Soul. The Soul is the most precious thing that you could possibly experience. So would you be willing to go through a nightmare to get to it?

Spirit is the process of now. Spirit only exists now. If you try to attach to the past or the future, you get stuck and may feel the absence of Spirit, because it cannot exist for you outside of now. That process of attachment to past or future can become a fixation within your consciousness.

Christ-mass, or Christmas, is not the exchanging of a gift out there, but a receiving of the gift of the Christ into you.