Ask anyone who has been through it: the road to recovery is a hard one. Not for the faint of heart! And so it's true when it comes to the real Work of realizing and recovering the most precious gift of all: the inner Light that grants us the right to live without dark mental and emotional states.

I'm sure we can all agree that no intelligent, conscious person would ever intentionally hurt themselves. No one would choose to ache. Yet the fact remains that all of us do hurt ourselves every day with bursts of anger or fits of depression or anxiety. Even at the simplest level, there can be no doubt: fear and worry take an immeasurable toll on our health and well-being. So, then, knowing in...

I'm sure we can all agree that no intelligent, conscious man or woman would ever intentionally hurt him- or herself. No one would choose to ache. Yet the fact remains that all of us do hurt ourselves every day with bursts of anger or fits of depression or anxiety. Even at the simplest level, there can be no doubt: fear and worry take an immeasurable toll on our health and well-being. So, then,...

The punishing pressure we feel in this life is not because of what life is but because of what we perceive life isn't.

If you ever want to float through life as gently as a cloud, you must (learn what it means to) become lighter than 'care.'...

Ask anyone who has been through it: the road to recovery is a hard one. Not for the faint of heart! And so it's true when it comes to the real Work of realizing and recovering the most precious gift of all: the inner Light that grants us the right to live without dark mental and emotional states.

Let every search for a solution to the suffering you feel begin in the unlit corners of your own consciousness, and soon you will never again wonder "why" you feel the worries, fear, and the bitterness that you do.

You will never agree to spend another moment attending to worried thoughts and feelings once you realize that they don’t care about you at all!

negative states, resistance, depressed, depression, resent, resentment, anger, angry, fear, fearful,afraid, anxious, anxiety, worry, worried, stress, stressed, hostility, grudge, judgemental,subconscious...

Here is why a mind awakened to its own native silence never gets into a stew over what to do with any negative thought that appears within it: Just as light makes obvious whatever form is brought into it, so silence can "see" a troubled thought for what it is in reality: nothing more than an agitated noise fashioned into a familiar shape; a discovery that -- once made -- requires nothing of us...

Fear is the negative effect of a divided mind that first imagines it possesses something of special value -- like some position or power -- and that then imagines it may lose this security it has imagined.

Hanging onto a handful of anxious, worried thoughts to protect you from what they point to as a fearful moment to come, is like wrapping your arms around the anchor of a sinking ship...