Stress / Anxiety

Topic: Stop the Useless Suffering of Trying to Do the Impossible (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 4/29/26)

Key Lesson: There is no tension or anxiety in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for us to be in two places at a time.

Topic: Don't Mix Worlds (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 4/8/26)

Key Lesson: Looking to any troubled, or any otherwise anxious thought for shelter is like being caught in a rainstorm and running into a house that has no roof!

Key Lesson: The whole idea of learning to live with "controlled stress" is like believing that not only are you in control of a war you didn't start, but that you're on the winning side.

Part 1: You cannot hide from what you fear; it is impossible. Part 2: You cannot believe in fear, and free yourself from it at the same time!

Topics covered:  Nothing that is divided will find wholeness in whatever it looks for to bring an end to its divided state; Hell promises Heaven if we will just do what it says to do in order to escape the conflict. Hell is what the mind makes when it looks for the Heaven it has imagined; You can't love the image that your mind has made of Heaven without fearing and wanting to escape from the Hell that has been imagined.

The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares to slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

Freedom is what remains when we see -- with new eyes -- that we have never been anything else.

Just as we can only move freely in a darkened room when there is light to reveal what surrounds us, so it is with the unseen dimensions within us: in any given moment, we live in a world no larger than the measure of our understanding.

When we know we can't put out a fire by feeding it more wood, then why don't we see the futility of trying to calm a mind enflamed by its own thinking... by adding more thoughts?

Calling on anxious thoughts to check the rising tide of some fearful feeling is like trying to stop a landslide by throwing rocks at it!