Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.