Weakness

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: 3/19/2004 - Any weakness we may harbor in our present character persists only because we have yet to see how its presence compromises our happiness, but a growing awareness of this interior shakiness changes everything. Our awakening stirs within us a Celestial Character created for the purpose of transforming the soul's stumbling stones into the building blocks of a whole new unshakable Self.

Classroom Talk: 3/19/2004 - Any weakness we may harbor in our present character persists only because we have yet to see how its presence compromises our happiness, but a growing awareness of this interior shakiness changes everything. Our awakening stirs within us a Celestial Character created for the purpose of transforming the soul's stumbling stones into the building blocks of a whole new unshakable Self.

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: 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.