I do not think it is fair or even correct to assume someone prefers the company of unfriendly thoughts and feelings just because they are suffering. There are certain illnesses where people do suffer. I find that so many people are trying to explain suffering, or make it go away, but it is part of life. By thinking that something is wrong with us if we experience it, or feel dark states around...

The next time some hostile state takes you over, see that something foreign to your True Nature has imposed itself on you and taken over your life.

Guy Finley reveals that the "self" that grieves over an unwanted event is the same level of self that dragged you into the situation in the first place. We have the capacity to use the shock of that realization to wake up and let go of the pain.

Trying to make yourself feel better by imagining a happier time to come is like hoping to make the pain of being hungry go away by reading a menu.

Whenever we start to feel small it's only because we have unconsciously identified ourselves with life's little things.

The false self, ever-pursuing or struggling to protect the dream of its own imagined sense of importance, doesn't care how it sabotages itself, or victimizes others; all that matters to this divided self is that it finds a way to validate its pressing need to feel significant... which means its character is incapable of either humility, compassion, or remorse.

The more we practice quietly stepping outside that rushing stream of thoughts about ourselves, the more we realize our True Self as being something altogether unthinkable; for the undreamed power of a silent mind is this: Since it never sinks itself into useless considerations of the painful kind, it has no need to be rescued from its own troubled creations!...

Just as our bodies grow healthy or not, according to what we take into our mouths, so too do we grow into wisdom, strength, or grace according to what we attend to with our mind. Our thoughts, like all energetic life forms, attract to themselves natures like themselves. The thoughts of a fellow not only flock together, but seek and are sought out by similar invisible creatures...

Once we awaken to see that suffering over "who we are not" is one and the same pain as the momentary pleasure of thinking about "who we should be" – then "trying" to become anyone at all simply comes to an end.

What you experience isn't the event but the content of your own past experience within its narrow confines.

When we know we can’t put out 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 to it?

There is a big difference between making a mistake, and thinking of oneself as being a mistake...