Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.

When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.

If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.