Key Lesson Part 1
Any real spiritual shock is alchemical; atomic in nature. The energy it releases alters consciousness from the inside-out, changing everything about you... including the way you breathe.
Part 2
The dark experience that feels as if our life has lost its meaning is -- more often than not -- the dawn of an essential realization that perhaps we were looking for it in all the wrong places.
Part 3
It doesn’t matter on which side of any inner struggle we stand, whether we “love one or despise the other,” because to take any such side is... to be taken in by the other.
Part 4
No thought can understand experience because thought follows experience; believing that any form of such self-analysis can explain the troubled reaction it seeks to understand is like asking a cold piece of flint to explain the nature of a spark.
