Talking to yourself -- especially when you're negative -- about what you can do to "feel better" about yourself . . . is like asking a virus what's the best thing to do to get over the flu.

How is it we don't see how much our life is spent worrying, and struggling to acquire whatever powers we imagine we must have in order to finally arrive at... a life free of worry and struggle?

Any conversation you permit yourself to have with dark and discouraging thoughts guarantees you will wind up with a dozen good reasons for why you should feel so dark and discouraged!...

The only thing that worrying does is waste the time and energy we need to shed light on a painful sense of self that exists only for as long as it has something to worry over.

The real reason why nothing is ever gained by running away from our troubles is because the only thing really troubling us is our own fearful -- but mistaken -- belief that we need to run away from anything!...

Living with fear of any kind is the negative consequence of having embraced the false belief that the foundation of a fearless life is something we must build for ourselves.

It only seems to make sense to try and push away unwanted events we'd rather not see until we realize that resistance to anything is negative attraction . . . and that to live with such blindness is to bind us to the very dark moment we would deny.

The pain of any worry or fear is not imagined, but its source is -- as when we become anxious over a lost key that we have mistakenly placed in our jacket pocket instead of our usual pants pocket. Such fearful worry is created by becoming instantly identified with certain habitual negative images flooding through us, the fact of which goes to prove: Much, if not all of our pain in life (that...