It seems as though I'm always in a state of suffering. Not only do I feel this anguish myself, but I know that it cuts me off from other people. I feel isolated. How can I open my heart?...
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Remastered Classic Talk: 2/22/17 - There is likely nothing more painfully mistaken -- no greater impediment to the realization of our freedom than the feeling that we are somehow entitled to it; we are entitled to nothing, and yet -- even in this world of spellbound souls who can only dream of being free -- we may have anything for which we're willing to make the appropriate payment.
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Classroom Talk: 04/12/2026 - Passing time reveals the true nature of thought to be naught but grains of sand, endlessly spilling themselves out of – and back into – the nothingness from out of which they have come.
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Classroom Talk: 5/26/2024 - Forgiveness is not the blind acceptance of what is dark, sinful, or just plain evil; real (forgiveness) begins with seeing the need to transcend our own negative reaction to whatever we summarily find as wanting in someone else. After all, whose limitation is it when the best we know how to do (with those who have hurt us) is to hate -- or otherwise resent them... and go on blaming them for the pain they've revealed still lives in us?
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Classroom Talk: 5/13/2020 - An unconscious mind identifies with the (ceaseless) reactions that dominate its attention, and -- as a consequence -- isn’t so much “ruled” by them... as it doesn’t know any better than to listen to, and then obey their misguided conclusions. While an awakened mind sees it has nothing in common with the...
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Being relieved of a great debt has to be one of the most liberating feelings in the world. A weight is off your back. A nagging doubt is off your mind. A limitation on your future is washed away. We know this is true when it comes to financial debt. And it's even more true when it comes to another form of debt that most of us don't even know exists, let alone that we're racking up...