if you hold onto a judgmental thought, the question becomes, who suffers? Letting go of judgmental thoughts is one way of talking about forgiveness.

Your thoughts and feelings are like the clouds, consciousness is like the sky, and love and wisdom are like the light of the sun.

When you wake up to the power of Thought rather than being immersed in the content of your thinking, it brings you into the now. When you are in the now, you still have a flow of thinking coming through you that creates your ups and downs. These ups and downs are normal for all of us to have. But when you don't manage your experience, you have more

“Looking within” is touching upon that quiet space within where wisdom can break through into human consciousness.

The now is a wide-open awareness when you are no longer caught up in any of the thoughts going through your mind. You are fully present, relaxed and alert. This is your natural meditative state. At some point during the day everyone spontaneously falls into this natural meditative state.

Realizing the Principles leads you to this natural meditative state. When you wake up to the fact of Thought, you stop being influenced by your personal thinking and you rest in the now.

Every feeling is always created from Thought. Every feeling is only created from Thought. When you wake up to this fact, you realize the true source of your feelings. Feelings can then serve to point you back toward the source.

When your thoughts become your identity that is called ego. Ego is a case of mistaken identity. You believe that the illusory thoughts that come and go are your true self. Your true self is the dimension of you that does not come and go.

When you wake up from the illusion of your personal thoughts, you wake up from everything you have been thinking. You step back from your personal thinking and, as it quiets down, you become present. You enter into the now, into pure Consciousness — free of the distortions, the limitations, and the contamination of your personal thinking.