Integration

Can you can see that, "If I'm ever to have freedom, somehow or other I'm going to have to accept everything that's given to me"? It seems counterintuitive, so let me explain why it's true. There are two orders of transformation. They are not really separate; they are in a constant exchange, just like the river is in a constant exchange as water flows in and out at each point...

We attribute the word "I" to what has no real I in it at all; The work builds in you a body of energy that can't be fragmented; The continuity of consciousness; Voluntary conscious suffering is the initial thread that lets you see what you are not; The cycle of tension and release; The energy to remember; You have to begin to be able to bear the spirit...

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2004 - Not wanting events to unfold as they do often feels like a measure of control over unwanted moments, but any negative reaction to reality is only an unseen form of self-punishment and not the rescuing power we mistake it to be. The only thing our resistance to life adds to us is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of a needless worry. 

Classroom Talk: 9/7/2003 - We do not cheat another when, by cunning or deceit, we seek to gain or otherwise take advantage of him; but we cheat only ourselves of the same moment's power to transform us, to show us that we already possess resources within us so vast that it is we who should be giving to the one from whom we would take!

Classroom Talk: 10/20/2002 - Part 1: True Silence is not the pleasurable sensation born of a quiet time taken in nature, and neither is it the natural repose that comes quietly at the close of day. True Silence is not a feeling at all, but is to one's emotions as is the sky to the sunlight that streams through it, lending it life. Part 2: Self-created silence cannot be creative.

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2002 - No one wins a war that rages on born of fighting with his perceived enemy, but everyone loses who runs in fear of engagement. Victory is assured only to the one who will neither fight nor flee, but who will embrace his foe until there is no one remaining to either win or lose the contested ground.