Self-Compromise

Classroom Talk: 7/7/2024 - Believing that avoiding the experience of an unwanted, or otherwise unknown moment is the same as freedom from the fear of it is like being lost in the African bush, crossing paths with a hungry lion, and hoping that if you just look the other way... it will too!

Second force prolongs whatever it is that we resist; The illusion that my identity exists apart from the image it's attached to; There is no 'I' without an opposite; Thoughts are outside of you; The self feels incomplete the moment it imagines what will complete it; Poverty of self; What is incomplete can't bring an end to itself with anything that it will acquire; Being called inward...

Classroom Talk: 11/24/2004 - The higher the Love we would know, the more steep runs its cost. 

Classroom Talk: 9/5/2003 - No animal hides in shame for being itself. No tree bends to the opinion of others. No wind avoids the granite face before it. Only human beings cultivate ways in which to fawn or cower before one another, and all for the sake of winning nothing but a fleeting feeling that for their cunning they have made it through one more day.

Classroom Talk: 6/9/2002 - The temptation to blame another for your pain must be recognized as a secret prelude to self-punishment, and it will be, once we awaken to the truth that the nature that wants to condemn someone has first unconsciously condemned itself.