A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time