Negative States

The answers to all of life's questions can be found WITHIN you. Three ways to start asking the right questions.

Let every search for a solution to the suffering you feel begin in the unlit corners of your own consciousness, and soon you will never again wonder "why" you feel the worries, fear, and the bitterness that you do.

The agility of the "thinker" to explain and justify its mistakes -- AFTER it makes them -- is not insight; such "cleverness" is nothing more than its capacity to deceive itself, something it applauds each time it finds yet another way to navigate around the wreckage it tends to leave in its wake.

The painful experience we have to any unwanted moment is inseparable from being momentarily identified with our own negative reaction to it; which means -- all said and done -- that what we're actually suffering from, and uselessly struggling against in these moments -- is ourselves.

Imagine trying to see the whole of an ocean through a ship's porthole, and we have a pretty good idea why (our) life can so often feel small and confined; as if we have no choice but to be swept out to sea on a single wave of some fearful thought or feeling.

Here's why the negative sense of self is blind: it doesn't want to see the smallest thing that challenges whatever it's become identified with; and yet (it is) unable to look at anything else...Which means it is not just a prisoner of what it resists, but (is its) unconscious keeper, as well.