You already know that your anger is destroying you. It is - and it will. You also know that there is no justification for the endless self-defeat which giving yourself over to hostile feelings entails. Here is a new way to work with what has been working you over. The next time a hostile state takes you over, either in thought, or in an actual moment of conflict with someone standing before you, take the following inner steps as soon as you can remember yourself to do so. Start by seeing that something foreign to your True Nature has imposed itself on you, taken over your life. Once having done this, do nothing else except realize that while you may be temporarily powerless to stop the lower state from possessing you, you are empowered to recognize the negative state as the intruder that it is. This awareness, this conscious unself-justifying awareness of your true pained condition, is what it means to put the Light on your problem. That's your job. The Light will do its part if you'll do yours. Persist until you are free!

One way in which it's possible for us to outgrow the problems that we face is to not let those problems dictate our behavior to us. In this instance, whenever we run into areas that are challenging, a part of us will urge us to avoid those situations that make us feel uneasy. The answer is to go into the problem, not let the problem take us away from seeing its real cause. The wrong parts of us are always defining us according to their secret limitations. In this instance, anything that we fear, or that makes us behave oddly, will tell us that it's the person or the situation that is causing us the conflict. We must always remember that in all circumstances, our situation is ourselves, and that it is through direct contact with these parts -- and doing what they fear to do -- that will prove to us there was nothing real in the fear. All fear, all negative states, are conditional. This means that if we will stay the course, and be willing to remain aware of ourselves while these parts are threatening us, we will see them fade and disappear. This is the only freedom.

Let me begin by telling you that just as there are Favorable Forces working to help us win our Spiritual Freedom, so too are there those forces which exist solely to prevent this inner success. Those lower forces must try and block our way out, because as we succeed in aligning ourselves with what is true, these false powers will die accordingly. So have no concern for what stands in your way. I know this isn't easy to do, but keep your eye on what you know to be true instead of letting it be directed by fearful forces to gaze upon what they want you to see. The mounting negativity we feel as we progress along the path is darkness' heightened effort to turn us away. I know this to be true. And so will you if you just persist. Nothing real can stand in our way, and everything that is Real wants us to succeed.

Always try to remember the following: all negative feelings are just illusions of power, not real powers in and of themselves. But, the only way to learn this secret, this truth which frees us, is to challenge these states with our new and higher understanding of their true nature.