Discouragement

How would you like to live from a nature where no matter what happens, no matter what comes at you, as soon as whatever it is lands on you, it's changed into something good? "Oh gosh, wow! You mean I could live from a part of myself where it wouldn't matter what it was that came to it -- no matter how dark, fearsome, hateful, worried, angry, no matter what it was -- as soon as it touched me...

Depending on how the day breaks for us, we often find ourselves feeling discontent about our life, experiencing any or all of the following conditions whenever we: Find ourselves unable to change or control someone near to us. Take a close look at our physical appearance and find we are somehow lacking. Run headlong into self-compromising behaviors beyond our seeming strength or ability to change...

Student Talks: 11/08/2024 - Key Lesson: Persistence – without our awareness of the parts of us that steadily insist there’s no further we can go – is a recipe for frustration; this painful sense of self slowly morphs from simple despair into an unholy cynicism that, in turn, serves to confirm what we see as our own unwanted, but unavoidable conclusion: we’ve no other choice but to give up our wish to transcend whatever limitation we’d been called to outgrow.

Student Talks: 8/13/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Any sense of discouragement that wants to drag us down into its dark world, where it feeds on the feelings of hopelessness that it loves to create -- appears when, and as it does -- for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for those who will consciously walk into... and then through whatever may...

Topic: The Power to Make Discouraging Thoughts and Feelings Disappear for Good! (7/29/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Stop Being Useful to What is Using You Up! (1/12/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Stop Being Useful to What is Using You Up! (1/12/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 1/12/2020 - The pain of any dark moment that makes life feel pointless is, at best a lie. Ours is always the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its doubt, nor its attending sense of despair -- is native to our True Self.

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2019 - Never trust in any negative thought or feeling that would have you believe, "There's no way!" Always remember instead that Real Life is a secret and vital flux of possibilities rising up from the ground of what seems improbable, much as a spring flower manages to bloom in a once frozen field.

Topic: Realize the Fullness and the Freedom of Your True Self (8/4/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Realize the Fullness and the Freedom of Your True Self (8/4/19 Classroom Talk)