It's This Simple: If I Never Try

Our Job This Day Is To Become Part Of The Answer To The World's Immense And Protracted Suffering Rather Than Continuing Our Ancient Task Of Being Part Of The Difficulty.

The Ego, As A Collection Of Our Past Experiences, Is Continually Offering Miserable Lines Of Thought. It's As If There Were A Stream With Little Fish Swimming By, And When We Hook One Of Them There Is A Judgment. The Ego Is Constantly Judging Everybody And Everything. It Has Its Constant Little Chit Chat About Things That Can Happen In The Future, Things About The Past, Too, And These Are The Little Fish That Swim By. And What We Learn To Do-this Is Why It Takes Work-is To Not Reach Out And Grab A Fish.

Problems Assault Us To The Degree They Preoccupy Us. The Key To Release, Rest, And Inner Freedom Is Not The Elimination Of All External Difficulties. It Is Letting Go Of Our Pattern Of Reactions To Those Difficulties.

'fault' Means Failure To Meet A Standard. Whose? Mine.

When I Have Listened To My Mistakes, I Have Grown.