Self-Remembrance: The Path to Unconditional Love. User Guide

The main goal of techniques such as self-observation and self-remembrance, which you will become acquainted with through the Red Hawk — a philosopher, poet, and follower of the Fourth Way teaching, — is to meet your true "Self".
However, this meeting... threatens the ego, which inflates our sense of importance and calls for "successful success" — instead of understanding ourselves and our true needs. The ego will do anything to protect itself — it runs away, ignores, and denies reality. As long as we do not fully attend to the present moment, we cannot realize the hopelessness of our attempts to change ourselves.
Paradoxically — by stopping to run away from ourselves and learning to accept inner and outer reality non-judgmentally, no matter how depressing or even repulsive it may be — we discover the path to change. We begin to see where and when the mind lies to us, luring us into another cycle of old scenarios, and we become capable of avoiding its traps.
After reading the book and beginning to practice, you will be amazed at how inventive the ego can be in trying to prevent you from being where you seem to already be — in the present moment. But it is worth it.