Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.