whenever anyone tells us about challenges they are facing in their life, they regularly use the word how. The difficulty of life always lies in the how. “How am I going to do this?” or “How am I going to do that?” This “how” dilemma only arises because we are always attempting to do everything ourselves. We have little or no faith in the causal

it appears as if life is consistently giving us what we do not want.

Joy is a relationship we have with our emotional body in which we allow ourselves to feel all emotions, whether they are pleasing or not, comfortable or not, familiar or not.

we inevitably discover what we most fear.

We all entered this life as unconditional

Once we allow ourselves to sink into our suppressed fear, without attempting to change it—without

Consciously connecting our breathing is a powerful not-doing

If we try to feel better, we end up feeling worse. If we try to make things easier, we end up making them harder. If we try to enforce peace, we seed conflict. If we try to be good, we become evil.

To enter intimacy, we open the eyes of the heart and use these as the causal point of our perceptual relationship within our physical, mental, and emotional life experience. Intimacy is the heart of the matter.