New World Library

Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now.

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.

If you found yourself in paradise, it wouldn't be long before your mind would say “yes, but . . . ”Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. Ifs about realizing that there are no problems. Only situations to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the "isness' of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.

When you create a problem, you create pain. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

Why make it into a problem? Why make anything into a problem? Isn't life challenging enough as it is? What do you need problems for?

The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts. This is normal, and it is insane.

If you create no more pain for yourself, then you create no more pain for others.

In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.

. In any emergency, either you survive or you don't. Either way, it is not a problem.

being sucked into a void.