Where are you blocked by fear, stuck, rigid, resistant to change? What is the fear beneath the fear? The fear that intimidates you only gains its power from the wiring beneath it, the wiring of history, which leads to a deeper fear, a fear from your past. This circuitry activates the old message that this fear, this issue, is larger than you, and

Where has life, in its unfairness, stuck you, fixated you, caused you to circle back and back upon this wounding as a provisional definition and limitation of your possibilities? Why do you continue to cooperate with the wound, rather than serve something larger, which serves you in return?

When we come to recognize that we are a truth, a truth meant to be lived, a truth the denial of which harms not only ourselves, but others as well, then we are much more inclined to speak directly and candidly.

Thus, so many of us live as strangers to ourselves. The message of one’s essential powerlessness is overlearned and one feels little permission to express oneself forthrightly.

Why do you believe that you have to hide so much, from others, from yourself?

mindless avoidance of the soul task that life brings.

The psyche, for all its mystery, is very clear, and very logical, once we have begun to open the ego’s resistance to an honest dialogue.

What gods, what forces, what family, what social environment have framed your reality, perhaps supported, perhaps constricted it?

Consciousness is a task that renews its challenge every morning.