negative events can clarify positive ones. They equip Hall not with weak-kneed dreaminess but with tough-minded buoyancy—the proper balance between downward and upward forces.

The very fact of living in this dimension of reality —which is your production, of course —is always a challenge. Imagine that you lived under circumstances so sublime, favorable and bliss-producing, that even the worst in you would not find occasion to express itself. Then the worst in you would remain dormant, unexposed, and would not go through

Nature has taught me that a storm can be used to clear out branches that are dying, to let go of that which was keeping us from growing in new directions.

The spirits about to be incarnated know that they need hardship to shake them into wakefulness so that they do not get imprisoned in matter and in all that matter attracts to it. Before incarnation, therefore, a spirit may ask the higher beings: “I beg you, help me, not only with your strength and guidance, but also, when you see that I am not fulf

We’re all going to travel the same shocks and slides; the question is how do we experience it and who gets to decide how it lands. That’s the contest. Credit: Developed by Movement Generation with Our Power Campaign; Updated May 2017 When folks say, “Catastrophe is inevitable,” I think: well, yeah, but change is also inevitable; transition is inevi