Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.

When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

You're wrong means that I don't understand you, I'm not seeing what you're seeing- and I'm not seeing all of you there is to see. But there is nothing wrong with you. You are what you need to be, doing what you need to be doing, and although I may take steps to protect myself of others, I do not know all and therefore am literally inadequate to judge.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.