True self-study — our spiritual work — is not just about exploring consciousness when we are feeling good, or when we are experiencing something that pleases us. Real freedom involves the willingness to look at ourselves no matter what each moment gives us to see.

Never let discouragement have the final word and one day there will be nothing left to discuss. Besides, you can have just as many new beginnings as you’re willing to leave behind all your ideas about yourself. Nothing in this world, or in any other, can stop you from discovering your original, free being. This has always been your destiny . . .