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.

Classroom Talk: 10/2/2002 - Part 1: Always fighting to stave off the hour feared does nothing to stem that dark tide feared, but only serves to make you a part of its pounding waves that wash back and forth in perpetuity. Part 2: Every time you struggle to save yourself from a fear, all you have really done is saved yourself for a fear.