Any fear of some troubled tomorrow disappears as quickly as we are willing to remove our sense of self from the dark thought that imagines it.

Your true self no more fears an unexpected change in life than water worries about how it will take the shape of the glass into which it is being poured.

Truth wants you to know that it is never in your best interest to unconsciously suffer, no matter how inwardly convincing it may feel to you that you will be betraying yourself or someone else if you don't. The only way that any suffering feeling can prove to you that you need it is to hypnotize you with a flood of itself. Step back from yourself. Learn instead to listen to the quiet stream of...

We are never further away from the True Peace we seek as when we look outside of ourselves for a place to rest.

Isn't it phenomenal that we spend our lives trying to produce powers for ourselves to protect and keep in place all the things that we believe are necessary for us to have a life with the least possible worry? And yet, our days are consumed with spending thought and emotional energy trying to figure out how this change affects that, and what that change means over here -- all the time trying to put back together a life we hope to finally have without...

The only sure way to drop a problem is to never pick it up in the first place.

Looking to any worried thought to bring an end to the anxiety it produces is like drinking a cup of hot sauce to temper the heat of having eaten a jalapeno pepper!...

If you watch animals in the wild, one thing is obvious: The nature of an animal and its natural experience of life are indivisibly related. For example, deer attract biting flies. In the high heat of summer you won't see one without the other, and I have seen deer driven nearly crazy by these pests. They have no choice but to suffer this seasonal torment. An animal's nature attracts to it the...

All of tomorrow's worries lie hidden in a moment of imagining -- and then identifying with -- some fearful thought as it threatens you with the possibility of a painful moment...

The wise individual is as skeptical about the worried thoughts that warn him of danger as he is over what he imagines he stands to lose should he fail to heed those same fearful thoughts.