Student Talks: 8/19/2022 - Key Lesson: The imagined time of "rest" we seek is, in fact, the same as an invisible burr beneath our saddle, as whatever form of comfort it is that still eludes us doesn't exist without some corresponding sense of discomfort that keeps spurring us on.
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Topics covered: My reaction to what I don't want from life validates my pain; The world we see isn't the problem. The problem is the way we see the world around us and ourselves within in it; I'm in an endless struggle with the world because I am in opposition to anything that opposes my will and what my idea of life is, and what I'm supposed to get from it; Try to be someone...
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Topics Covered: There is nothing more useless than looking outside of yourself to fix a pain that is not outside of you; All psychological suffering comes out of an identification with a problem outside of yourself that a part of you is trying to resolve; Real peace cannot be disturbed; Without disturbances there would be no consciousness of the world around us. But the natural and inevitable...
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Topic: The Power to Make Discouraging Thoughts and Feelings Disappear for Good! (7/29/20 Classroom Talk)
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Classroom Talk: 7/29/2020 - The ache of any dark moment -- of any discouraging thought or feeling that wants to convince us we'll never be free... is simply a lie. Ours is always and forever the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its pain, nor its attending sense of despair...
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Topics Covered: What does a difficult moment have to do with giving my life away?; Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others; Do you think you're the only one who suffers?; Most men live lives of quiet desperation; Love is greater than the life it gives; Not my will but Thy will be done; Seeing the good in difficult moments; There is no such thing as discouragement without...
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Classroom Talk: 12/2/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 10, 2018. Part 1: Frantic, false emotions can't exist outside the company of the compulsive thoughts that are their life-long "partner-in-pain"... while higher emotion requires no thought at all to be real, to reveal its timeless intrinsic beauty...
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Topics covered: Discussion of the topic Relationship Magic; Guilty feelings over ending a relationship with a childhood friend; What is the difference between a retrospective vs. reflective consciousness; Choosing in favor of what you know is true in spite of the consequences; Fear wants to think for you; Our consciousness is one of lack, predicated on the feeling that I'm missing something; C...
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 10, 2018. Part 1: There is but one relationship one can have with the wind-blown events of this world that isn't a part of all the useless, unconscious suffering they create... and that is to be a conscious witness of them.
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