Letting Go

The reasons we give ourselves for our pain are not the cause of it.

If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can't listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story. And if we can't hear the whole story, then how can we ever hope to understand, let alone realize our actual role in it.

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2024 - We end the conflict inherent in reliving any painful memory as we awaken to see that no such time, let alone any tormenting thought associated with it, exists outside of an unseen temptation to identify with - and then relive - the unwanted experience of what we've agreed to remember...again!

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2021 - Part 1: It is inevitable, but nevertheless a truth seldom realized... until too late: any troubled thought that circulates through an unattended mind will eventually run into the outstretched arms of the very suffering it's trying to escape! Part 2: Here's a great paradox, and anyone who can solve its mystery stands on the threshold of self-liberation...

Classroom Talk: 12/16/2020 - Until we're able to see how the needs of others are the same as our own -- and awaken enough to witness a self-centered level of consciousness that would convince otherwise -- no one's true need, let alone our own can be fulfilled.

Classroom Talk: 11/4/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 12, 2018. As the chaff is gradually threshed from the wheat... It's not hard to imagine that the wheat may "feel" as if it is losing itself: as if all that it has been -- or known -- is being taken from it.