Going into painful confusion over the appearance of any problem is really the avoidance of realizing some temporary limitation in one's understanding of oneself... and nothing else.

Confusion is the distance between what you're being shown about yourself and your refusal to see the same.

Classroom Talk: 10/9/2024 - Anyone who refuses to face their fears will never know the true nature of faith, let alone its power to dispel any form of worry, confusion, or painful self-doubt.

A student writes: Dear Sir, Now a days i am trying to watch my thoughts the whole day to have a better understanding of the tricks of my mind. After reading your books, when i start the "watching of thoughts" method, my mind starts interpreting (in the form of conversion) of what you have just said in the book. For example, it says or sometimes shouts-"Be conscious", "Just watch the thought",...

When you begin to doubt everything you believe about your suffering, you will see that you never had to remain in the path of those destructive storms at all.

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't try to think your way around it.

Why do so many of your lessons leave me feeling so confused?...

Topics covered:  Exploration in the world alone is useless, as long as the nature that is searching does not know itself; Revelation is always about relationship, and without that understanding nothing can change for the individual; Faith is what happens when an individual begins to do what he or she was previously afraid of doing. Wisdom comes from a marriage between contemplation and action.