I invite you to set some time aside—perhaps a half an hour—to allow yourself simply to feel whatever is there: to let any sensation, feeling, or emotion come up without trying to avoid or “solve” it. Simply let whatever is there arise.

Relaxing and letting go of struggle isn’t something that the ego does—yet we often get our egos involved in trying to make letting go happen. To even say, “Let go of struggle,” isn’t quite right. All that’s required is that you begin to notice that place within you that’s not struggling. To do this means there’s really no future for which to hope.

Meditation isn’t a closing off from life or our surroundings as many people perceive it to be. But what it does involve is a giving up of our resistance to life. There is a difference. And from this constant state of meditation, where we stop resisting, suffering naturally comes to an end, and we discover new and creative ways of addressing the cha

There’s a wonderful quote from the Gospel of Thomas in which Jesus says, “Blessed is he who existed before being born.” Jesus is pointing here to being itself; he is acknowledging that essence of who and what we are before our minds created an image of ourselves as something separate and distinct from all of life.

If you just completely surrender to the emotions or thoughts, you will see the invitation there, the invitation to wake up from your idea of yourself and the whole emotional environment with which you identify. There is a way that you can really stop. The truth is that a whole new state of consciousness already exists, that every part of your exper

by relinquishing our need and desire to control, explain, and believe the way that our minds talk to us about what was and what is, we find a capacity to open to a new state of consciousness.

What is the me that has no difficulty, even when I’m having difficulty?”

When we begin to surrender our demand that life change, that life alter itself to suit our ideas, then everything opens. We begin to awaken from this dream of separateness and struggle, and we realize that the grace we were always seeking is actually right there at the center of our own existence. This is the heart of spiritual awakening: to realiz

The reason that we struggle to maintain the egoic state is because it allows us to live our lives as if we are in control and separate from the world around us. While ultimately this proves to be very unsatisfying, it does provide a certain amount of comfort and security,