The soul can learn. You in there, the consciousness, can learn to experience reality. In order to do so, you must not resist.

The entire purpose is to practice gaining control of your attention so that it becomes yours again. What you pay attention to determines your experiences in life. You should have the right to consciously decide what to pay attention to.

To remember to do this in the moment, establish the practice of recalling your intention every morning: “The purpose of my day is letting go of my blockages and evolving spiritually.” Then every evening, remember: “The purpose of my day was to let go of my blockages and evolve spiritually.”

Notice your surroundings coming in through your senses, your thoughts passing through your mind, and any emotions that arise in your heart creating feelings of comfort or discomfort within. These three inner experiences are the arena in which your consciousness plays the game of life on planet Earth.

If you’re asked who is saying all this inside your head, you’ll probably say it’s you. But it is not you. Those are thoughts, and you are the one who is noticing the thoughts. Thoughts are just another thing you notice in there. You notice the world coming in from outside, and you notice the thoughts that are generated inside.

The purification of your heart begins with being grateful that you have one.

You just need to deeply relax and stop fighting with yourself. At that point something amazing is going to happen: All the energy that was pulling you down and out changes direction. It begins to lift you in and up. This is the transmutation of the energy, and it is real. As liberation becomes the meaning of your life, this inner process will step

good technique is to tie the mantra to your breath going in and out. Then during the day, come back to it whenever certain events occur. For example, you could say a few repetitions of the mantra before you pick up the phone and after you put it down.

If you want to willfully do something, here’s what you do—relax. This is certainly not the intuitive thing to do.