Stress / Anxiety

Key Lesson: There is no tension or anxiety in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for us to be in two places at a time.

Key Lesson: Looking to any troubled, or any otherwise anxious thought for shelter is like being caught in a rainstorm and running into a house that has no roof!

Key Lesson: The whole idea of learning to live with "controlled stress" is like believing that not only are you in control of a war you didn't start, but that you're on the winning side.

Part 1: You cannot hide from what you fear; it is impossible. Part 2: You cannot believe in fear, and free yourself from it at the same time!

The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares to slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

Freedom is what remains when we see -- with new eyes -- that we have never been anything else.

Just as we can only move freely in a darkened room when there is light to reveal what surrounds us, so it is with the unseen dimensions within us: in any given moment, we live in a world no larger than the measure of our understanding.

When we know we can't put out a fire by feeding it more wood, then why don't we see the futility of trying to calm a mind enflamed by its own thinking... by adding more thoughts?

Calling on anxious thoughts to check the rising tide of some fearful feeling is like trying to stop a landslide by throwing rocks at it!

The real cause of any fear, anxiety, or dark emotion isn't because of some unwanted condition that appears before our eyes -- it hides behind them. These dark, seemingly animated shadows are temporary creations; they are cast by a false light of some imagined, brighter time to come that -- even as we identify with it -- causes us to fear it may not come to pass.

It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until we see the parts of us that are secretly clinging to it.

Fear and anxiety do not exist outside of an old mind that -- moment by moment -- creates these dark states in a deeply divided space within itself.