Key Lesson Part 1
The only thing good about any negative reaction is the revelation of how useless is that (level of) suffering to change anything about our present nature, let alone the condition it convinces us to blame for its pain.
Part 2
For billions of human beings around the world, the idea of surrender is believed to be the “winning strategy.” But true surrender is inseparable from a conscious sacrifice of oneself, born of realizing the following truth: there's no strategy by which it becomes possible to win any form of peace that we’ve imagined.
Part 3
No person, no situation ever “puts” a strained, angry feeling in us -- any more than eating chocolate has the power to make us sweet. What disturbs us isn’t caused by what we see, but rather by what it stirs in us as we see it. Just as a mirror isn’t to be blamed for reflecting something we don’t want to face, life (itself) is never the cause of what we don’t want to see -- let alone be; rather (it is) the revealer of it.
