Responsibility

Student Talks: 5/22/2020 - Key Lesson: Blame does NOT work. Any solution based in blame only postpones the moment when we'll blame again. There is nothing to blame for how we feel; there's only what we've yet to realize about our present level of consciousness. Seeing this (as true) places responsibility for our experience...

Student Talks: 1/10/2020 - Key Lesson: Since what other people may do to us is NOT in our power to change, that means the ONLY thing we need to be concerned with is what WE do to ourselves, for that IS in our power.

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2019 - Part 1: Many are those who love, but only because they are loved, and so their love is not true. But those who love, in spite of being spurned... their love alone is true. Part 2: Don't do what hurts another, but not for the sake of being someone who doesn't do what he believes his "goodness" forbids...

Student Talks: 7/5/2019 - Key Lesson: The sooner we realize the wisdom of refusing to excuse our negative states... the sooner will all dark thoughts and feelings excuse themselves from our life.

Student Talks: 3/29/2019 - Key Lesson: If thoughts are cheap, and negative states are a dime a dozen, then what does that tell us about the parts of us that like spending most of their time identifying with them?

The real source of resentment toward others is not due to some power we may think they have and hold over us; rather, it arises from a secret weakness within us that keeps us believing that someone else holds the key to our well being.

The reason it's pointless to ask, or otherwise demand that someone explain himself to you for your troubled feelings over his words or actions, is because no one in the world can explain away a pain that you are creating for yourself.