Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

When living in harmony, you get out of your own way. You stop trying to fight against, interfere with, control, or judge your experience in ways that work against you.

I do not ask anyone to ignore their past experiences. This would be denial, and denial is not a healthy state. Instead, seek a clearer understanding of the past; realize that the negative feelings and emotions from past traumatic experiences are no longer true. They are merely memories, a collection of old, stale thoughts.

Trying to be special, different, or better requires a lot of effort and thinking. It is based on dissatisfaction with your self, and such effortful thinking now adds stress to your dissatisfaction. Realizing the Principles allows you to accept the perfection of how you are at each moment.

Just for a moment, consider what it would be like if you realized not a single thought that you had was true. In that moment you would be completely free of the influence of any concepts that were created in your head.

This book is an invitation for you to realize ever more deeply the infinite potential that is found within. “Within” means beyond your thinking. This wisdom is untouched by any memory, no matter how painful that memory may be. This wisdom lies beyond any experiences you have had or are now having, and is prior to any beliefs or ideas you have about

The now is a wide-open awareness when you are no longer caught up in any of the thoughts going through your mind. You are fully present, relaxed and alert. This is your natural meditative state. At some point during the day everyone spontaneously falls into this natural meditative state.

Realizing Thought keeps you from believing that anything other than Thought is creating your stress.

The Principles invite you to look within, toward the formless source of experience. The Principle of Thought invites you to look toward the fact that your feeling experience is created from inside of you. “Inside” refers to the formless nature of your being, rather than from “outside” of you — that which has already been created. The Principle of C

When your thoughts quiet down, and you start to feel better, that’s the feeling that you are looking for. When it is ego, it often feels like excitement and your thinking starts to race with all of the things that you think you should be doing. It’s a high-energy feeling, as opposed to the calm, quiet knowing