When everything falls apart, and I feel the ground beneath me disolve it is then that I look with gentleness and clarity at myself. I see that old pattern taking seemingly charge. It is my thoughts that imprison, and my thoughts that set me free.

These thoughts are only images not a solid immovable personality as if I were Michelangelo chiseling myself out of marble

It is that instant to remember happily:"I am responsible for what I see.  

I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

Forgive your brother all appearances, that are but ancient lessons you have taught yourself about the sinfulness in you. Hear but his call for mercy and release from all the fearful images he holds of what he is and of what you must be.

He is afraid to walk with you, and thinks perhaps a bit behind, a bit ahead would be a safer place for him to be.

Can you make progress if you think the same, advancing only when he would step back, and falling back when he would go ahead? For so do you forget the journey's goal, which is but to decide to walk with him, so neither leads nor follows.

Thus it is a way you go together, not alone. And in this choice is learning's outcome changed, for Christ has been reborn to both of you.

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. In the dream of time it seems to be far off.

And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go.

Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.