Suffering

Classroom Talk: 11/7/2003 - The next time someone is cruel to you, remember this truth: what just clawed out at you is that person's pain -- and before it started tearing into you, it had already torn that poor person apart. This special kind of remembrance helps cancel the cycle of conflict, because we will not lash out at another whom we can see is already suffering. True compassion takes root in the ground of such higher understanding.

Classroom Talk: 10/29/2003 - We are only as capable of receiving true Higher Guidance as we are willing to turn loose the tiller of thought, raise our eyes from the horizon of self, and wait quietly for a star not yet risen to reveal the Way.

Classroom Talk: 8/13/2003 - The most difficult thing in the world is to be one person.

Classroom Talk: 7/16/2003 - At their outset, right choices are not always free of fear or doubts, but unlike all wrong choices, our right choices never leave us with painful regrets.

Classroom Talk: 7/2/2003 - Freedom from self-wrecking behavior must begin with our recognition that we are voluntarily serving that which compromises us, even though we may strongly claim the counter is true. Such a conscious awareness of (this) conflict inherent in our own divided mind may be difficult to endure, but only if we fail to realize this last point: This conscious awareness (and it alone) is the seed of a new action that eventually flowers in a self-wholeness that is one and the same with true self-freedom.

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: 5/21/2003 - When one knows what is wrong, But not what is right, He must stand in the dark, While he waits for the Light.