Make this last exercise your constant companion. Within it I have summarized the most important lessons of this book.

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. Don't try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from it.

So don't allow yourself to be pulled down into any anxious concern or confusion over not knowing what to do about your present condition. What you really want is an insight into your situation, not a fight with it. The two have nothing in common. So make it clear to yourself once and for all: nothing that hounds you can help you.

Draw yourself back from your usual thinking. Quietly observe the "me" mind racing around looking for the shelter of a conclusion it can recognize. Have nothing to do with its frantic motion.

You've gone as far as you can go with what you know. Now it's time to know that, so that you can let what you know go, and let something unthinkable occur to you. Just relax.

Pressuring yourself to come up with a happy ending to a sad or shaky situation only goes to show you still believe that you can resolve these troubles. But if you could have, you would have by now. Besides, the "me" mind wants you to confuse these feelings of pressure for being some kind of proof of personal progress. It's done its job well. After all these years you're afraid to live without this feeling of habitually prodding yourself, for fear that without it, you might get stuck! This powerful insight releases you from the pressure of wanting anything from yourself.