As We Get Deeper, We Move Closer

Excitement And Depression, Fortune And Misfortune, Pleasure And Pain Are Storms In A Tiny Private, Shell-bound Realm - Which We Take To Be The Whole Of Existence. Yet We Can Break Out Of This Shell And Enter A New World.

In Memorizing The Prayer, It May Be Helpful To Remind Yourself That You Are Not Addressing Some Extraterrestrial Being Outside You. The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within Us, And The Lord Is Enshrined In The Depths Of Our Own Consciousness. In This Prayer We Are Calling Deep Into Ourselves, Appealing To The Spark Of The Divine That Is Our Real Nature.

Nothing Really Worth Having Comes Quickly And Easily. If It Did, I Doubt That We Would Ever Grow.

Through Meditation And By Giving Full Attention To One Thing At A Time, We Can Learn To Direct Attention Where We Choose.

Do Not Feed Your Ego And Your Problems With Your Attention. ...slowly, Surely, The Ego Will Lose Weight, Until One Fine Day It Will Be Nothing But A Thin Ghost Of Its Former Self. You Will Be Able To See Right Through It, To The Divine Presence That Shines In Each Of Us.