A painful regret is a needless present pain over an experience now past, where a misstep becomes the seed of a misery mistakenly carried forward, instead of a lesson learned and then dropped.
ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein and this is a Fireside Chat with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. I thought that today we would explore the topic of regret. Most people have things in their life that they regret. Memories come up of embarrassing experiences or lost opportunities, or maybe mistakes that they made or things that they're sorry over... and these things that may have h...
The real reason your regrets continue to grow is that you keep watering them with "sighs, cries, and whys"!...
Classroom Talk: 7/11/2003 - Not only is beauty in the eye of the beholder, but so also is ugliness; and this simple truth is a timeless fact that those who fear self-knowledge fail to see. The Wise understand that Truth is always beautiful, even when it is hard to look at sometimes.
No regret exists without the seed of some desire that precedes it, presenting itself as a pleasure for which there will be no cost.
Each of us longs to grow beyond who and what we have been every day, answering that wish within us to become better, brighter human beings. But as we all know too well, nothing moves in a straight line! We all make mistakes along the way. We have to. That's part of what makes us human; blunders along the way are an inescapable part of the process of our own perfection. But used rightly, t...
The purpose of true spiritual study is to begin a very slow and steady process by which the human mind that is willing to be educated is brought into the presence of new understanding. This new understanding is not something that you can give to yourself, but it must start with certain ideas that are intended to come between you and your present suffering. Presently our suffering feeds on itse...
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Sensation is but an echo -- a shadow cast by the Real. It belongs to life, yet it is not Life itself. Mistaking sensation for Life... is like mistaking a shadow for the sun whose light lends it form, and from which it has been cast.
Unwanted life lessons repeat themselves again and again. Why? Because we keep talking to ourselves about them. Whether they happened two minutes -- or even 25 years ago -- we talk to ourselves about things we regret or feel guilty over. In fact, the mind almost never stops talking. Something triggers a thought that is the left over, undigested energy of an event that was meant...
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Classroom Talk: 2/8/2025 - Pretending to be a loving person, while inwardly being resentful, is pain; A nice deep breath will always help you to digest more of the many impressions that are raining down on you; The secret source of our painful, ongoing imperfections is our fear of them; We don't see the judgment in ourselves because we are identified with what we are judging; Creation is an unfinished business...