Comparison

Classroom Talk: 3/23/2005 - Experience proves that whatever we seek to end usually lingers all the longer, which is why we must learn the Way to grant negative states their safe passage through us -- in spite of the temporary pain that always attends their appearance.

Classroom Talk: 7/16/2004 - Seeking the approval of others -- in the hope of measuring the worth of ourselves -- makes as much sense as looking for our reflection in a falling drop of rain, with the main difference being this: A raindrop actually lasts longer than does that fleeting sense of self we win for having sold our soul for another empty smile.

Classroom Talk: 4/23/2004 - Painful negative assumptions that pop up in us about ourselves, that darken our aspirations for a higher, happier life, are much like thorns on the stem of a fragrant rose: the only power they have to hurt us is when we mistakenly close our hand around them.

Classroom Talk: 4/23/2004 - Painful negative assumptions that pop up in us about ourselves, that darken our aspirations for a higher, happier life, are much like thorns on the stem of a fragrant rose: the only power they have to hurt us is when we mistakenly close our hand around them.

Classroom Talk: 2/21/2003 - Until we can be content wherever we are, we will never get any closer to the Home of Real Happiness.