You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power. The shadow isn't a fearsome opponent but a worthy one. Powerful as it is, the power of wholeness is infinitely greater, and by a miracle of creation, it is within your grasp.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

Biologically I'm 25, chronologically I'm 53, psychologically it varies.