Stay inside your power where you feel the most secure. And work on controlling the ego. Discipline it so that you move from its fragile world to the immortal certainty of spirit. There you will feel the eternity within you, and your insecurity will gradually melt. You’ll accept life as you find it, rather than struggling against it, and you’ll know

A. H. Almaas, the revered spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach, in his seminal work Essence (1986),

Too often people try to change their lives by using the will as a kind of hammer to beat their life into proper shape. The intellect identifies the goal of the programme, and the will accordingly forces the life into that shape. This way of approaching the sacredness of one’s own presence is externalist and violent. It brings you falsely outside yo

An embodied life will require you to turn your mind’s eyes away from the distractions, the addictions, and the erroneous thoughts that have been running your day-to-day life,