The only thing we really win in any temporary victory achieved through agreeing to be angry, aggressive, or to otherwise ache...is this guarantee: while we may live to fight another day, we are losing -- little by little -- the possibility of ever knowing the "peace that passes all understanding."...

Why is it that we so seldom remember to help another at the cost of ourselves, and yet find it so hard to forget those who fail to remember us in our hour of need?

Classroom Talk: 1/21/2005 - How strange it is that we resent carrying on our backs the pointed opinion of others, when it is we who give this barbed thought its power to trouble us. Think not? Then let us ask: what possible suffering can there be in what another thinks of me, unless I am holding the same thought as he?

Classroom Talk: 10/16/2019 Allowing any part of self to act in such a way as to deny yourself a new awareness of yourself -- whatever its quality -- is the same as refusing your right to realize the limitless depth and breadth of your true Self.

No condition, in and of itself, is ever the cause of psychological pain; suffering of this kind is inherent in the level of consciousness that resists changing conditions instead of using them to change itself!...

When we turn on a faucet connected to a hose with a small nozzle at its other end, we know from experience that we have to keep the hose in hand, otherwise we will likely get soaked chasing down the runaway end. What happens is that the water pressure, as it passes through the nozzle, transforms our ordinarily tame garden hose into the equivalent of a tethered rocket. With this picture in min...

Do we not try to escape the stress we have by further imagining ways to relieve ourselves from the circumstances held responsible for it? And the more we do to create for ourselves an enclave in which we will no longer be confronted with the trouble, the more we isolate ourselves, and the greater the problem becomes because we increasingly resist anything not part of what we've..."

Classroom Talk: 9/7/2003 - We do not cheat another when, by cunning or deceit, we seek to gain or otherwise take advantage of him; but we cheat only ourselves of the same moment's power to transform us, to show us that we already possess resources within us so vast that it is we who should be giving to the one from whom we would take!

Classroom Talk: 9/27/2023 - You can't learn how to be; it's impossible. But you can see through the futility of the endless struggle to make yourself (feel) real. So, yes: it's hard to die to the hope that some time yet to come holds the key, but it does get easier the more you realize that whatever freedom you've imagined... doesn't exist without the fear that it doesn't.

Identifying with a negative state -- and resenting someone else for how you feel -- is like bumping your elbow on your own bedroom door and blaming your next-door neighbor for the pain you're in!...

Believing that someone who keeps on hurting you will have a change of heart and see the error of his ways, is like hanging a sign on your basement wall, "All rodents stay out," and hoping they will read it and obey!...

Topics covered: All good things come to those for whom the good is all things; Conditions outside of you are not who you are; Events and conditions serve to reveal your consciousness and help you outgrow a level of yourself; We are asked to let go, not to run; The light is meant to show us our darkness; Resistance drives repetition, as it cannot learn; The root of our life is in something Divi...