One sure way to tell if you're negative about something that's happened to you... is when you can't stop thinking about it, reliving some idea that simply won't stop. Any thought about an event past that you can't stop running through your mind... is in a race of its own; it sprints forward trying to cross some imagined finish line where it imagines it will finally rest for having finally outr...
If we would ever be free... this is what we must come to see: our troubled thinking is a “racket” in both meanings of the word: (it is) a noise seeking to silence itself, in a “rigged” search that has no end...
Every moment presents you with a choice: to work to be present or zone out into psychic sleep; to make that cruel remark or see the state in you that wants to make it; to sink into self-pity or stop thinking about yourself and keep your attention in the present moment. The choice you make is critical to creating your destiny. That's why it's so important to learn the secrets reveale...
Waking up to ourselves describes a whole new level of being self-aware. We no longer know ourselves simply through the thoughts we have about ourselves, but we can now see these formerly self-defining thoughts as being only one small aspect of who we really are. So it can be said that awakening begins with being able to see that we have been...
There is no end to the challenges of life when you think it is life challenging you.
Part I: The only true solution to that constant press of discontentment in our lives is not to acquire more of what has proven powerless to please us, but to consciously detach ourselves from that level of self that believes the path to contentment is paved by continually thinking about what is missing from one's life. Part II: At some point the sincere seeker of God's Life will spe...
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Dreaming of some brighter day to come -- when, for happier circumstances, you will be freer -- is like believing that the solution to living in a city with unending traffic is to have a better car to sit in as you go nowhere.