Don't cram your brain with unforgiven things.

- Dean Jackson

Faith is not easy, but it's also not complicated.  Faith is a matter of quieting the ego mind and knowing without a doubt that Divine Guidance will emerge from the silence.  That Guidance leads to action.  Silence, Guidance, action, repeat: the cycle of faith. 

- Dean Jackson

Your current life circumstances are the result of decisions made and actions taken in the past, whether it was ten years ago or ten minutes ago.  They are only circumstances.  They do not define you.  Each passing instant is a new beginning, a chance to live beyond the circumstances.

The mind that is busy with unguided thought is not at peace.  The thoughts are over there in the past or future, while life is happening right here in the present.  The one lost in unguided thought is living some place other than where their life is happening!  The distance between thought and life is stress.  If we will awaken from the thought, the distance will vanish.

- Dean Jackson

We envision our minds as being inside ourselves.  So, to escape our self-created chaos and stress, we look outside ourselves, seeking something or someone "out there" to ease our pain.  Yet, we have learned from spiritual teachers throughout the ages that the very kingdom of God is within us.  Why do we seek without that which already is within?  It is when we stop searching outside ourselves for peace, and still the body and quiet the mind, that we become aware of our true, spiritual nature and its connection to and oneness with the Source.  The hell of the mind ends in the presence of the Divine.

- Dean Jackson

In the midst of the physical world and all its distractions, remember that your true self is a spiritual being.

- Dean Jackson

Life can be much more peaceful than we make it.  It's often just a matter of deciding what matters.

- Dean Jackson

What one refuses to forgive becomes their identity.

- Dean Jackson

Accepting the Now just as it is does not mean that you are resigning yourself to circumstances always being as they are. When you accept this moment just as it is - even if your ego doesn't like it - you discover that the energy you once directed to resistance can be channeled into creativity.

- Dean Jackson

I took the stones that had been hurled at me, and I built an altar.  There, I gave thanks to the One who, through it all, never left my side.

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