When you fear something, rather than deal with it, you do whatever it tells you to do. To defeat fear, don’t do what it tells you to do; then it has no power. You can listen to it, even respect it and even be convinced of it. But, if you don’t do what it tells you to do, it has no power over you.
If you are true to your inner nature, you will withstand the vicissitudes and adornment of life. We may have great fortune or bad, but we should patiently bear both. No matter what, we must be true to our inner selves.
We know that the manipulations of the mind are dreams, delusions and shadows. This causes your life to become chatter and contradiction. Hold one idea, another competes with it and soon these two will be in conflict with a third. Instead keep your mind undivided and let ideas go; just be.
If one is sincere when confronted with difficulties the heart can penetrate the meaning of the situation and once we have gained inner mastery of the problem, it will come naturally that the action you take will succeed.
Quote: If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “Thank you,” that would suffice. —Meister Eckhart