When it comes to fear, anxiety or any other kind of negative state, we can learn to observe and bear the state that is being revealed so that a new understanding of the moment can begin to dawn within us.

Being convinced to worry over some darkness that "might be" just around the corner is an unseen interior shell game; (it’s) a “play and lose” operation...

Without some form of unconscious identification to nourish its proliferation, no negative state -- no punishing anger, fear, or worry -- can grow beyond the boundaries of that level of consciousness from out of which it appears.

Our greatest strength lies in our ability to realize that whatever may be the nature of some immediate worry or fear, it can be proven false...

Reliving a past pain in the belief that revisiting it will keep you from going through that same suffering again is like throwing money out the window of a moving car so that you won't spend it foolishly later!...

The weight of any kind of fear, weariness, or worry is the negative by-product of our own past as it inserts, and then asserts, itself upon the light of peace that is the present moment.

What man or woman, by running away from some disturbance -- be it fear, worry, or sorrow -- can hope to transform, let alone transcend their pain? The solution to suffering is...

Just as a child's runaway imagination creates menacing shapes out of shadows on the wall, it is the mind asleep to itself that makes monsters appear where there are none.

The answer to every question is hidden right within the event itself that gives rise to that question, and never is this truth more important for us to realize than when we find ourselves asking ourselves why are we in the pain that we are?...

Guy Finley explains that there truly is a wave of love that alone has the capacity to wash away everything that causes you to be sad and angry. But you must be in its waters, and allow that love to do what only it can do.

One of the reasons why the false self likes to create a mess is so that it not only has something to worry over, but then it can also feel good about itself later on for getting it cleaned up!...