Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.