The problem with pride is that this vain spirit always feels righteous in its wrongness; seeing itself as being superior to the terrible sense of isolation created by its own tormenting desire to be like no one else.

Anxious thoughts and feelings are powerless to restore order to anything. The fact that these tormenting and secretly limiting states can seem to be even remotely helpful... proves just how out of order our lives have become!...

The size and strength of any anxious, or otherwise tormenting reaction is no bigger or stronger than the extent of our resistance in the moment of its appearance...

We end the conflict inherent in reliving any painful memory as we awaken to see that no such time, let alone any tormenting thought associated with it, exists outside of an unseen temptation to identify with -- and then relive -- the unwanted experience of what we’ve agreed to remember... again!

Just as a swarm of flies that darkens the sky is swept aside by a single breeze, so too can the pervasive negative states that darken one's heart and mind be brushed away -- if we will only dare to come awake to ourselves and ask that tormenting spirit a single question: Upon what is your authority based?...

1. Real Success is not measured by what you are driven to achieve, but by what you can quietly understand. 2. Letting Go is the natural release which always follows the realization that holding on hurts. 3. Why seek answers to tormenting questions when it is possible to realize there is no intelligence in torment? So simply drop those painful questions. 4. See the upset not as an exterior c...

Part 1 Giving your mind over to any thought that wants you to revisit something painful in your past is like taking your dog for a walk and, before you make it back home, finding yourself on the leash. Part 2 Believing that re-living something painful from your past will one day liberate you from the suffering that you find there in those same tormenting thoughts is like hoping that...

Part I: Just as a swarm of flies that darkens the sky is swept aside by a single breeze, so too can the pervasive negative states that darken one's heart and mind be brushed away -- if we will only dare to come awake to ourselves and ask that tormenting spirit a single question: Upon what is your authority based? Part II: There is no such thing as "later" when it comes to our s...

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.

Allowing anything to eat at you -- by consenting to sit at the "table of torment" -- serves nothing... save the dark and hungry ghost of some past pain that lives only to consume negative energy.

We think that what troubles us most in life revolves around those things we can't control, or that we're otherwise unable to possess. But, the real source of what torments us is . . . we don't possess ourselves.

If you want to stop feeling like a choiceless captive in life, notice how parts of yourself love to catch negative thoughts; then dare to drop this self -- with its torments -- before they drag you down.