No relationship in life can be any more successful than what we are willing to learn about ourselves through it. The moment we turn our back on what others give us to see about ourselves, we not only walk away from what we need to see, but also from the better person we could be...were we only willing to learn the lesson at hand.

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

No relationship in life can be any more successful than what we are willing to learn about ourselves through it. The moment we turn our back on what others give us to see about ourselves, we not only walk away from what we need to see, but also from the better person we could be . . . were we only willing to learn the lesson at hand.

To be undaunted in one's spiritual search does not mean undefeated -- only that one's love of truth outweighs the fear of failure, ensuring that whatever stands in one's way soon shows itself to be the Way itself.

Learning to let the whole world pass us by is the only way to discover that the fear of losing some imagined position in life is as imaginary as that position we fear to lose.

The secretly punishing effect of our struggle to be seen as "great" -- of wanting to be "first" in the eyes of others -- is a self-inflicted pain born of resenting, and then rejecting, all those who don't share our vision of perfection!...

Once we experience for ourselves that the universe is actually set up for us to succeed in becoming Wise unto all things, we realize in that same moment that the very Ground of Reality is Compassionate, founded in Love. With this discovery fear in us is forever dissolved.

You have triumphed at life's game when -- no matter win or lose in the eyes of the world -- you can walk away from any demanding moment with a measure of more true self-understanding than you took into it.

Meeting life with the pretense that we already know what its all about keeps us from discovering what we are all about.

Classroom Talk: 2/6/2002 - See through this trick and triple your productivity: Those stressed parts of us always asking us how will we get everything done that needs to be done, especially when there is so much to do, are themselves incapable of doing anything other than wasting the precious energy we need to proceed... Even as they use these same forces to lend themselves a heightened but false sense of importance.

 

Topics explored in this dialogue: We've lost sight of the true purpose of our own existence; The stone underneath the surface is every bit as heavy as the one on the surface; Anger is always the way in which fear hides itself; Follow and find the part of you that is not intended to be dominated by any dark state; The real definition of a fearless life is the...

Learning to let the whole world pass us by is the only way to discover that the fear of losing some imagined position in life is as imaginary as that position we fear to lose.