Strength

Classroom Talk: 3/16/2005 - A great spiritual paradox: the knowledge we gain of any weakness that lives within us strengthens self-understanding. To know the truth of this is to welcome those shocks in life by whose light we become more and more wise.

Classroom Talk: 4/9/2004 - True strength of character is not just calculated by how well we manage to carry some sizable load under challenging conditions, but is perhaps better measured by our ability to remain kind and light-spirited... even when we're sure that we can't bear the weight of one more ounce of life.

Classroom Talk: 10/17/2003 - If we will persist with our wish to be true to ourselves -- to be kind and patient, caring and wise in the face of any set-back -- that bright day dawns for us when we realize this all-empowering truth about ourselves: in this life we each have but one weakness and one strength. Our weakness lies in what we have yet to discover about ourselves; but our strength is the realization that in each of us lives a Columbus of the Soul...

Classroom Talk: 6/6/2003 - The truth is that the only time we ever really "fail" at anything in our life is when we mistakenly walk away from it before we've allowed it to teach us its secret ways.

Classroom Talk: 5/7/2003 - When we are awakened at night from a nightmare, we realize with a start that we had been sleeping; but when a dark state overcomes us in the daylight hours, we believe we are awake, never suspecting that our bad dream unfolds as it does because we remain asleep within ourselves.