What does it mean to try and be okay? For one thing, it means trying to make your thoughts and emotions easier to live with. There are nice ones, and there are not-so-nice ones. You like the nice ones. That’s what you’re struggling with. You want your thoughts to be positive, uplifting, and beautiful. The problem is there’s an outside world of reality that can come in and cause your thoughts and emotions to be very difficult. This is why life can be overwhelming.

This interaction with the world, your thoughts, and your emotions raises some very interesting questions. What are these three things, and where do they come from? How much control do you have over them? Why do they sometimes make you feel good and other times make you feel bad? At some point, you’ll realize that what really matters is not the thoughts, the emotions, nor the outside world. What really matters is YOU in there – the True Self, the one who experiences these things. How are

you doing? What we’ll see if that you in there are higher than any experience you’ve ever had. The one who is seeing all this is the most beautiful thing in the whole universe. If you ever find your way back to the seat of Self, that’s what you’re going to discover. This is what Christ taught you, what Buddha taught you, what all the great spiritual masters of every tradition have taught; The Kingdom is within you. You are a great being made in the image of God, but to know that, you have to free yourself from all the inner commotion. And so it is.