Our ability to run off into thoughts and stories that used to offer us false comfort in the form of distraction is now waning. At other times, there is peace, timelessness, and flow. It becomes obvious that we are not in control of when we feel peace and clarity, and when we feel resistance patterns and disorientation. With this recognition, a

“Universe, I pray that it becomes increasingly uncomfortable for me to avoid or resist anything in my immediate experience.”

This is normal. It’s not a problem. You can always start by accepting resistance itself.

It’s best to do this in a relaxed way. See if you are able to approach this exercise from a relaxed sense inside your body, or even the space around your body.

“What in the world is that light, that unity, coming and going in? What allows it to unify and seemingly shatter again? What is the vessel for lightness and darkness?”

“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery, and omitting all compliment and

awakening is a shift into that vastness, peace, flow, and equanimity at the identity level.

Until that time it can be quite helpful to learn to detect when we are operating from a belief, especially one that is having immediate and distorting effects in consciousness.

There is no wrong question as long as it comes from authenticity and leads to experiential insight instead of conceptual answers.