An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.