By Silencing The Mind, We Can Experience

We Have To Learn To Be Kind To Ourselves. In The Long Run Avoiding Unpleasantness Is A Very Unkind Thing To Do To Yourself.

No Problem. You Are Not Crazier Than You Were Yesterday. It Has Always Been This Way, And You Just Never Noticed.

View All Problems As Challenges. Look Upon Negativities That Arise As Opportunities To Learn And To Grow. Don't Run From Them, Condemn Yourself, Or Bury Your Burden In Saintly Silence. You Have A Problem? Great. More Grist For The Mill. Rejoice, Dive In, And Investigate.

You Can't Make Radical Changes In The Pattern Of Your Life Until You See Yourself Exactly As You Are Now. As Soon As You Do That Changes Will Flow Naturally.

Deeply Buried In The Mind, There Lies A Mechanism That Accepts What The Mind Experiences As Beautiful And Pleasant And Rejects Those Experiences That Are Perceived As Ugly And Painful. This Mechanism Gives Rise To Those States Of Mind That We Are Training Ourselves To Avoid-- Things Like Greed, Lust, Hatred, Aversion, And Jealousy.