Exercise: Anytime you hear thoughts that try to convince you how to get yourself out of the frying pan, realize that all they're able to do is lead you into the fire. Make your own list of what these 'false guides' are telling you to try to get you to go along with them.

True ideas are a form of light, and while they aren't the light itself, they can be converted through action.

Participating in a spiritual school accelerates an aspirant's life as they are brought into, and nourished by, the pool of experiences of the group itself.

Little I's make mistakes and feel miserable. Big I sees there's more to learn and is...

As above, so below: every creature struggles with the moments leading up to, and then in its moment of birth. So too must we who seek a conscious rebirth agree to enter into this fight.

Just because we are able to freely justify, idealize, or otherwise deny the 'in the dark' parts of us that frighten, torment, or otherwise bully us... does not mean that we are free.

There is no tension, anxiety, or dissatisfaction inherent in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for you to be in more than one place at a time, doing more than one thing at a time.

The pressure behind the momentum inherent in any imaginary 'train of thought' is never really obvious until reality 'interferes' with, or derails that train. These collisions -- and the prerequisite 'end of the line' for the self that is identified with its imagined destination -- are usually expressed in fits of anger, fear, disbelief, or depression.

The clearer we can see that negative states must have an excuse to exist within us, the sooner -- and more strongly -- will arise in us a refusal to grant them a place anywhere in our heart, mind, or soul.

Trying to meet life with predetermined ideas about how to handle what unfolds before us -- before it does -- is like a downhill skier wanting to know where he will make his turns before he reaches the mountain down which he intends to ski!...

Nothing in this world can answer your true spiritual need to be kind, whole, and quietly happy as long as you consent to live with fear, compromising yourself in the now for the freedom it promises will come later.

Any part of one's self that finds good reason to justify its pain is the source of that pain it justifies.