Imitation

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2024 - Here's the truth that helps sets you free, but only as you agree to see its Divine Law at work within you: Real Life never asks for one thing more than what it's already given to you - in that very same moment - to make Good its request.

Your life is just a stream of thought; Thought is a ceaseless postponement; I've never felt what it is like to truly be alive; You are being given life, you are not the creator of it; There's fear in imitation; The fact of the moment has no residue in it whatsoever; You live from a nature that's in a perpetual scramble to protect itself; I don't know what to do about how I feel...

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: 9/25/2002 - Don't try to be free -- for this sets you against any movement of life that doesn't line up with your ideas about the nature of freedom. Better than trying to be free, learn instead to freely explore all of your moments. For instance, be free to wonder about your worries instead of feverishly working to resolve them according to your present ideas about a worry-free life...