Stress / Anxiety

Classroom Talk: 5/10/2023 - Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you.

Classroom Talk: 3/22/2023 - What is Limitless hides within, and just behind limitation. So anyone who will agree to silently slip into the quiet awareness of any painful sense of inadequacy -- refusing to bow before it -- will be crowned with a new and unimaginable strength.

Classroom Talk: 11/9/2022 - No one would agree to the feeling of being pulled apart by anxious thoughts and feelings, that is to say... unless he was first deceived into believing that this kind of pain is a required payment for anyone who hopes to pull their life back together... again!

Classroom Talk: 7/6/2022 - Part 1: No stress or tension exists outside of the seed of some desire from out of which it grows. Part 2: Everything is better without tension!

Classroom Talk: 4/27/2022 - As surely as open skies can't be overcome by any cloud that may pass through them, neither can our True Nature be overwhelmed by any "dark" moment of life, regardless the shadow it seems to cast over it.

Classroom Talk: 4/6/2022 - The ability to explain our fears to ourselves -- all the "valid" reasons we have for feeling anxious about "tomorrow" -- is not wisdom. Wisdom is the Light by which we see the following truth: there is no experience of psychological fear that doesn't begin without first having imagined a threat to some equally imagined sense of security.

Classroom Talk: 11/10/2021 - To see that what makes unwanted moments feel so important to us can't be separated from a powerful, but false sense of self provided by these same painful feelings... is the first step in separating ourselves from an unconscious nature that doesn't care what it feels as long as that stress, anger, or fear supports its insatiable need to feel important.

Classroom Talk: 5/5/2021 - Peace of mind is not some "place" we can rush to; fulness of heart is not a possession to be claimed. We can only realize that these Divine gifts – of a quiet mind and overflowing heart – have already been given to us: an interior discovery which may prove to be the most difficult thing we will ever agree to do in this life.

Classroom Talk: 3/31/2021 - Part 1: All forms of anxious rushing through life are the painful effect of an impossible task: trying, in vain, to complete ourselves... by serving an incomplete, compulsive nature that always has one more task to get through before it can rest in its imagined place of peace. Part 2: There is a momentary peace...

Classroom Talk: 10/28/2020 - Tension is a part of creation itself; its boundless energy is a feature of every relationship in all worlds. The unknowing masses resist its manifestation, and wear themselves down trying, in vain, to escape it. But the Wise know how to use it... to remain aware of their part in a Divine awakening that is the fulfillment of Life.

Classroom Talk: 10/7/2020 - The only thing that worrying does is waste the time and energy we need to shed light on a painful sense of self that exists only for as long as it has something to worry over.

Classroom Talk: 9/2/2020 - The only true solution to any stress, anxiety, fear or frustration -- that rears its ugly head in unwanted moments -- is to do the (interior) work it takes to outgrow an unconscious, conflicted level of self that sees its pain as proof that it knows... the true nature of peace.