I Came To See That There Was

I've Heard People Say That They Cling To Their Painful Thoughts Because They're Afraid That Without Them They Wouldn't Be Activists For Peace. "if I Feel Peaceful," They Say, "why Would I Bother Taking Action At All?"

The Whole Planet Is Waiting For Someone To Do It First

Rather Than Understand The Original Cause-a Thought-we Try To Change The Stressful Feelings By Looking Outside Ourselves.

I Used To Sleep On The Floor Next To The Bed, Because I Believed That I Didn't Even Deserve A Bed To Sleep In. And Then, One Morning, A Cockroach Crawled Onto My Leg. I Looked At It, And Suddenly I Awoke From A Kind Of Hypnotic Trance In Which I Had Been All My Life.

Until You Can Love What Is - Everything, Including The Apparent Violence And Craziness - You're Separate From The World, And You'll See It As Dangerous And Frightening.