The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?