Choice

Classroom Talk: 1/28/2004 - Real wealth is not measured by how much we manage to take from life, but is realized in discovering our endless potential to give something of ourselves to each moment that enriches everything in it, including us.

Classroom Talk: 7/16/2003 - At their outset, right choices are not always free of fear or doubts, but unlike all wrong choices, our right choices never leave us with painful regrets.

Classroom Talk: 7/2/2003 - Freedom from self-wrecking behavior must begin with our recognition that we are voluntarily serving that which compromises us, even though we may strongly claim the counter is true. Such a conscious awareness of (this) conflict inherent in our own divided mind may be difficult to endure, but only if we fail to realize this last point: This conscious awareness (and it alone) is the seed of a new action that eventually flowers in a self-wholeness that is one and the same with true self-freedom.

Classroom Talk: 3/12/2003 - What causes our suffering in life is not in what life itself brings to us, but the way in which we identify with self-limiting negative states as they convince us that it's only wise to refuse what we have been given.

Classroom Talk: 12/6/2002 - We cannot control the way the world turns. We cannot change day into night. We cannot keep what is not ours, and we cannot hide these facts from ourselves no matter how hard we try. But what we are given to do, and that turns out to be the one power of ours truly capable of transforming our experience of life, is that we can choose the internal company we keep...

Classroom Talk: 7/19/2002 - Part 1: When we feel overcome by a life seemingly turned against us, it is vital we understand these moments are not the outcome of some bitter Reality set against us. This suffering that seizes us is born of our resistance to seeing that the present foundation of our self is nothing like we had imagined it to be. Each such glimpse is a Gift of Reality, not Its denial of our hopes...