Desire promises to deliver us to a higher place but because it originates from a lower place it can't connect to what's higher; Choose presence over fantasy; You must learn to stay in one place (psychologically) long enough to study yourself; Change is not possible without revelation; No one can be reborn until they die; Nothing grows stronger without resistance; It's only when something in you is resisting that you can observe it; The only way being grows is when doing ends; Being is the conscious union of the observer and the observed.