You can only trust it to happen.

everyone who deals with her attachment to her mother and goes all the way into the feelings of need, longing, and hurt will ultimately get into what we call the Merging quality of Essence.

The personality doesn’t know what else to do if it doesn’t do these two things. “If I don’t try to get something good or get away from something bad, what else is there?”

It’s not as if you’re looking for truth because truth will lead you to something else. No. You’re dedicated to the truth because the truth is truth. It is the same thing with impeccability.

come to the Work. They think it’s the way to be a successful kid. “How nice it would be,” they think, “to understand more and expand more so people will think I’m wonderful and want to be around me and do things for me and give me what I want.”

Not only is it the single most important truth, it is also the most practical truth, the most helpful truth, and the best advice I could ever give you for absolutely all situations.

You may also feel compassionate towards yourself when you are hurting; this compassion helps.

It means you’re doing something right now. You’re sitting. How do you sit impeccably? How do you listen impeccably? How do you ask questions impeccably? Impeccability

If the larva continues to be a larva as it grows, it will feel constricted after a while. It’s getting bigger, it’s growing, but there is something definitely wrong. It complains and goes to a therapist. The therapist will help it change a little here and a little there. “No, don’t eat those maple leaves. They will make your indigestion worse.” It