There’s nothing wrong with doing new things, pursuing activities, exploring new countries, meeting new people, acquiring knowledge and expertise, developing your physical or mental abilities, and creating whatever you’re called upon to create in this world... Now the question is, Are you looking for yourself in what you do? Are you attempting to add more to who you think you are?

So sensitivity is actually lost when you're reactive, and true sensitivity comes when you are absolutely present in a situation and see, "This is how it is," and you totally face the situation as it is.

Every thought is energy, so there's nothing spooky about that. So when I say that the pain-body can be considered almost an entity in its own right that lives in you, some people find that's a little spooky, but all that I'm trying to say here is that it's an energy form.

Whether the condition is a physical condition that one suffers from or a psychological condition.. there is the tendency to identify oneself with the illness or with the—whatever it is.

Alcohol and drug abuse is often an attempt at escape from the pain-body.. an escape of not wanting to feel the pain anymore. In some people, the pain-body is active almost all the time, and that is dreadful way to live. And those people.. often they will seek some kind of escape from it because they can't live with that pain anymore. Their chance of awakening is also quite great.

Nobody could have done a better job than you with your boy. And yet, it’s not that you feel guilty, there's a certain structure in our thought processes that produces the feeling of guilt.

If you're shy, then what you fear is to be found wanting. So because you're afraid of that, whatever the disapproval or the criticism would represent an injury of your mentally made sense of self which is the ego.