Question: Why is life so unfair? I am only 21 and yet I have had every hope of academic opportunity dashed. Things seem to go so well for others... such as having parents who love and support them, while I have had to let go of all of my dreams! Answer: Life is not "equal opportunity"... it never has been, and never will be. That is the nature of this world, and resenting the reality of it does...
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Classroom Talk: 7/28/2024 - Only in a sustained conscious awareness of our (own) suffering are we awakened to see, and to know, accordingly, the healing presence of a Divine Light: a living, loving intelligence that reveals and conceives -- all at once -- the possibility of perfect compassion.
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Classroom Talk: 4/3/2024 - When it comes to conflict between us, and any other -- let alone a person we may love -- anytime there's some kind of painful drama being enacted... each of us is responsible for whatever continues to be played out on that stage.
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Classroom Talk: 11/25/2020 - It takes us less than a second to tell someone, "I love you," but a lifetime or more to learn not just what it really means...but what we must give up -- of ourselves -- in order to be able to do so.
Student Talks: 3/15/2020 - Key Lesson: There is only one reason why we become emotionally negative, let alone surrender ourselves to embrace its dark and debilitating embrace: We have forgotten that we have a choice as to what we love, and whose company we keep, accordingly.
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The fear-filled, anxious self loves one feeling, and one feeling only: getting all heated up over the "fire" it just ignited in the dark of its imaginary life, so that then it has something it must rush to... to put it out!...
Ask yourself: how many times have I won the object of my desire, only to find out that it wasn't enough? How familiar do the following statements seem to you? "This is the greatest thing that's ever happened... but what if..." "I love you... but..." "This moment is almost perfect... all it needs is..." The prize won, whatever its name, doesn't end the feeling we have of needing...
One virtually unknown aspect of love -- and, in a way, one that is most vital to your inner growth -- is found not in correcting the path of others, but rather...