Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

So you must “receive” your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them. Has nobody ever told you this? When you renounce something, you’re tied to it. The only way to get out of this is to see through it. Don’t renounce it, see through it. Understand its true value and you won’t need to renounce it; it will just drop from your hands.

You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.

Anytime you renounce something, you are tied forever to the thing you renounce.

The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new.

“I dare not stop to think, because if I did, I wouldn’t know how to get started again.”

these things come and go; (d) understand that when you change, everything changes.

Very well, when you renounce something, you’re stuck to it forever. When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.