Cloudscape

Love is immortal. It is the driving force of all life. Once the need for love sets a heart on fire it will last forever, for it cannot forget itself. Whatever may happen to it, everything will always seek for love until it finally finds it in everything. Longing for love can grow, but it can never die. Even when a heart is embittered, it will still need love as much as ever, in some form or other; but it will not always find it until it is soothed again. Love is an ever growing light that shines from the end of our tunnel as we walk through it, onward to infinity.

The mind is made of many layers of perception and meta-perception, and this is so too for the heart. We don't feel only because of things, but also because of what we feel. In this way every emotion intensifies itself and escalates. We have not only emotions but also meta-emotions: emotions about emotions, and emotions about those emotions and so forth. If there is resistance in us, it might be that that resistance is far greater than the original resistance was, because it is resistance of that resistance. Thus, much can be done about it by just allowing yourself to resist life for a while, that is to say, to give up, to despair. Despair is a functional emotion meant to purify our minds.
The only negative thing about despair is that people see it as negative, so that people in despair will usually also see it as negative and resist it. The reason people see it as negative is because people who are in despair do not function properly. But despair is a means for the heart to get rest, much like sleep.

You can either accept or resist an experience, and if you resist, then that too is an experience, and there is nothing wrong with that. The point is, you can either run from an experience or stand before it and look it in the eyes, and like the monsters in our dreams, the more we'll run from them the more frightening they'll seem, but look closely and you'll find that they're just baby goblins with toy clubs.
You can either accept or resist an experience, and if you resist, then that too is an experience, and there is nothing wrong with that, either. The point is, you can either run from an experience or stand before it and look it in the eyes, and like the monsters in o ur dreams, the more we'll run from them the more frightening they'll seem, but look closely and you'll find that they're just baby goblins with toy clubs.There is nothing to be afraid of, not even fear itself.
The only difference it makes if one is afraid is that one is no longer conscious of the real nature of one's experiences. Like when one is running from a monster, one faces away from it and so no longer sees what it really is, let alone see it for what it really is; likewise, if one is afraid of something, one tries to become unconscious of it - and it works, but not with the desired effect. Suffering is, in effect, is ignorance.
And that's what people just won't get.
If you face your fears, they'll disappear. But what does that mean, facing your fears? It means you accept them, and whatever it is you fear, not resisting. Usually, people are incapable of both accepting their fears and at the same time enjoying. It is in our nature.
When we enjoy life, we try as hard as we can to forget our fears because those might interfere with our happiness. We cannot accept our happiness and at the same time that it might disappear. This brings us into a perpetual cycle of joy and suffering and hope and despair, and the only way we can break free from this cycle is to dispense with the illusion that there is any such thing as good and bad. This liberation is a painstaking process that can only be achieved by suffering - that is, in the sense enduring - those things we cannot accept, and learning to love those things and seeing their beauty.
If we drop the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, we will regain Paradise. That does not mean we must cease to distinguish light from darkness, but that we should condemn neither. Do that which is most beautiful, and it will create more beauty. But let us see what is most beautiful with our hearts, and not with our minds. Only the mind knows such duality between good and bad because only the mind sees in black and white.

Yang mostly protects one from negative feelings, Yin mostly increases one positive feelings.

Is is better to dream than to hope: hope implies that you will not be fulfilled until you have achieved something, while a dream does not. You enjoy the dream even when it isn't yet reality.

One must not demand anything at all of life. It is given from us and it can be taken from us, but always and in all circumstances, there are untold wonders to enjoy, and each is a reason to be happy. If you can lose whatever ou have, you are free.

One creates one's own emotions, and to create feelings one doesn't want is pointless. The only thing one has to do to become free of them is gaining a distance from them.

Anything that stirs the depths of the soul can be painful in its intensity, and that is why most people do not seek these things.

Sorrow can make a man passionate about beauty, and passion for beaut can make a man sorrowful.

In the silence you can hear things you otherwise cannot. Remember this when you feel alone, that you would listen to the silence. Only when you are alone, you can fully connect to yourself, and discover what you feel, and what you want. This may be a hard lesson, which is why loneliness can be so painful, but know that the lesson does not last forever, and you will become a wiser person from this lesson if only you learn from it. When you are alone, you are alone with God.