Suffering

Classroom Talk: 5/10/2020 - Part 1: Everyone we know is wounded in one way or another; we hurt too, which means all of us suffer. Someone has to be the first to start the healing, otherwise the hurt is endless. Be the end of the pain, even if no one else even wants to try. The angels will applaud. Part 2: Rough edges attract grinding wheels.

Classroom Talk: 4/5/2020 - Psychologically speaking, the pain & bane of our life is not just mistaking today's troubling event as proof of tomorrow's pain, but actually ensuring that it will be... by unconsciously resisting what is nothing more than a dark image generated by (our own) negative imagination.

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2020 - Part 1: Seek first the Truth of yourself: there cannot be two firsts in our life, otherwise the first of today...becomes the last of tomorrow and, ultimately, what is lost is our opportunity to enter into a conscious relationship with what is timelessly wise, and perfectly loving. Part 2: Growing pains are inescapable for all those...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 24, 2018. It is impossible for one to awaken -- to realize a new mind and a new heart that carries no residue of resentment, let alone the image of some enemy -- until one sees the absolute uselessness of complaining about anything, to anyone... Including to ourselves about our "self."...