' Anxiety '...

It is a curious fact that one's chances of survival are best when there is no anxiety to survive.

There is a special effectiveness or power of virtuality that is available to those who do not exhaust and dissipate themselves with anxiety.

The subtlety, however, is that anxiety also includes any positive effort to eliminate anxiety--and this is precisely where true understanding comes into its own by accepting wholeheartedly whatever life brings without resistance or recoil.



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A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org