Negative emotions regularly impact our daily life and affect our view of the world, all based on the assumption that negative emotions are normal and that the impulse to express them is healthy. This books explains in detail how negative emotions take shape in human psychology, how their formation is destructive to awareness, and how not expressing them can lead to a transformation of awareness that is independent of all thought and emotion. Based on the author’s experience in the fourth way.

The mind searches for words, concepts, and images in the hope of corralling awareness, but it never works because the mind cannot comprehend the nature of awareness. It never works because the mind cannot step outside itself or go beyond itself. At best, it can suggest what awareness is and describe what it is not, which has been the basis of many teachings about awareness and about the development of conscious awareness. This book tries to lead the mind to the farthest edges of itself by also indicating what awareness is in terms of itself, how it manifests itself to itself, and what it...

Awareness resides beyond the mind and encompasses the mind. Through perception, the mysterious world of awareness is reflected in the psychological world of thought, which subsequently reverberates in the physical world as speech and action. The selections in this book are meant to demonstrate that even the most profound thoughts are not the source they spring from. They reflect that source, point to it, and urge us toward it—toward the simple, pure presence of an awareness just beyond thoughts, and just behind the eyes seeing and reading them. That is what this book is...