The only thing valuable about any fearful state is seeing how worthless it really is and then -- along with the false self that loves to scare itself -- just letting it go.

Look where any man or woman spends most of their time -- upon what they spend it -- and, despite all protest to the contrary, you will see exactly what that person loves above all else.

For the want of love, pleasure, or approval we often accept within us the guidance of a consciousness so compromised that it is incapable of discerning the difference between fulfilling ourselves and selling our soul.

Topics covered: The mind is forever trying to find a way to escape from the prison that it is constructing; Is there any other way to respond to a negative reaction other than to identify with, and then act out its choices... only to react again to the inescapable result of the choice we have made, and in whose promise we've become identified? What if its choices are not ours?; We go into thought in order to get out of the unwanted condition, when thinking itself IS the condition.

The only thing

The whole idea that just because it's my reaction means there's something intrinsically right about it is all wrong.

The reason we should hope for the success of others -- even if we temporarily fail -- is because time proves that whatever perfection one can achieve . . . becomes the possibility of all.