What causes a breakdown is the weight we carry. We are supported inwardly by images that ultimately break down. When we break down we are looking for shelter. What's raining down on us is our thoughts and feelings. In a breakdown we realize that our plans will not bring us peace.
Where is the peaceful harbor? The only way peace can last is if all things are part of that peace.
Everyone must become part of the peace. I must love everyone as myself, but everyone disturbs my peace. I need to see that I have qualities similar to the person who disturbs my peace. Something inside me resists that manifestation. The "I" that judges is the root of "unlove." I can't be at peace if I have an enemy. I blame others for the weight I'm carrying, and try to add more weight to them.
We need to learn to say, "Let me help you with that."
If I'm ever going to know peace it will be at the cost of myself. Now we think our peace is separate.
You make me feel "me" and my peace is ruined. I become what I judge.
Thou art I and I art thou. To love a neighbor is to see that I am he and he is me. The only way past is to realize that there is no weight except our resistance to it. We can die to the parts of ourselves that we see in our neighbor. The Work is to go into a new kind of struggle. I will agree to bring in an understanding that ends the divisions. The way is provided for me.