No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.

Meditation changes your character.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.

Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.