Experience will never lead you astray. It can be elevated or challenging, but it's always real, always home.
It's only in thought that we lose our way. Stress, anxiety, depression - all the psychological manifestations of fear stem from mistaken identification with a thought-based self.
It's easy to tell when you're lost in thought. There's an element of stress, a figurative and physical clenching.
When you're awake within experience, there's a palpable, foundational peace, a relaxation into okayness.
Awake experience includes thinking but recognizes itself as a much broader phenomenon than the thought-based self.
When you know yourself as not a self, there's nothing to fret about.
Ideas lose their power to arrest your sense of validity, becoming instead instruments of joy.