Freed from all limits, the human body would not become something superhuman; it would simply turn into a puddle of red slush, powerless, ugly, and dead.

Many of those who claim to be able to create their own reality at will, by contrast, insist that relatively simple, easily learned techniques are all that is necessary to make the world obey the individual's desires.

for the time being, as far as we know, life creates life, and only life can do so.

slow steps, according to a threefold rhythm of challenge, response, and reintegration. Each of these steps takes time—time to face the challenge, time to develop the response, and time to reintegrate the resulting abilities into the whole system of the species, the ecosystem, and the individual.

In the same way, many of the same New Age circles that twenty years ago enthusiastically discussed the individual's power to create his or her own reality, and ten years ago were full of talk about becoming an ascended master in this lifetime, have now turned much of their attention to garish prophecies of cataclysmic earth changes and a dizzying

When the world refuses to conform to the desires of the believer, one ancient and widespread gambit is to insist that the world that makes this refusal will shortly be replaced, with or without apocalyptic fireworks, by a world in which the cherished belief system will work as advertised and in which everyone who currently disagrees with that

Central to that journey of awakening is a process of sorting out what is within the self and what is outside it.

Evolution does not proceed by leaps and bounds, but by

The Law of Limits functions as that central pivot of the seven laws of spiritual ecology,