It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.