You often speak about finding the freedom to live the way we want, and that it's all an interior story. Is there a way to know how free we really are?...
Here is a great, but unseen, psychological Truth that once realized sets us upon the true spiritual path leading to Real Love and its Perfect Freedom: What frightens us about others is what we want from them; and what we want (from others) is largely what we have imagined is in their power to either give to us, do to us, or withhold from us. And so, whether we live with the fear of our love...
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Classroom Talk: 11/23/2022 - No one has freedom of speech who -- for fear of being isolated, cast out and left alone -- feels unable to speak the truth they would, or to question what they see as false. And how much more so does the above hold true when it comes to the freedom to see oneself as one is... without endless self-judgment, and all of its painful justification...
Part I: One good reason to work at simplifying one's life is that fearlessness is the natural fruit of innocence. Part II: Nothing in the universe can interfere with the Will to be Free. This means that for those of us who would know Freedom, our part is not to struggle with what we perceive as our captor, but rather we need only learn to act within that Sovereign Self we would...
Part I: Life itself has never weighed-in so heavily upon us as to hurt us; rather it is we who -- in ignorance of reality -- carelessly attribute weight to events that are essentially without substance, causing ourselves to suffer nothing less than the fervent magnitude of our own imagination. Part II: The degree to which we feel ourselves confined by any circumstance in life is directly...
Ultimately, all of our searching in life is for what we believe will release us from something that presently restricts us. If a man or woman is genuinely earnest, he or she will go down a countless number of different roads in order to find freedom. But you can't set out to find something without you being the one who is going to find it, which means that for each different pursuit, you assum...
I am listening to one of your tapes on the freedoms we don't have when we want to say things to people. It came across to me that I don't say what's on my mind at times. But when I'm annoyed or sometimes tired, I say what's on my mind without any hesitation! (Student correspondence, 2/19/07)...
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Look at people around you, and at your own daily experience, and you will realize this shocking fact: negativity is rampant! Our world is driven by negative reactions: dark states that crush spontaneity, kill relationships, and keep us from realizing our own higher possibilities. Here you will learn how to turn negative reactions into self-healing actions, and become free of their painful grip.
One of the greatest gifts that a man or woman can be given in this world (and only if they ask properly) is to understand that everything that happens to them - no matter what -- is for their greater good. It makes no difference what it is -- call it the worst thing in the world -- and most of us have had the experience of recognizing there were times when if we could have thrown away that moment full of fear, anger, resentment, we would have thrown it away.