To wish against the success of another is to wish against our own happiness, because it's impossible to "want" unhappiness for someone else without first bringing that sorrow into our own heart.

Topic: Invite Higher Self-Knowledge to Lift You Above Worry, Doubt, Anger and Fear (2/18/18 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: Invite Higher Self-Knowledge to Lift You Above Worry, Doubt, Anger and Fear (2/18/18 Classroom Talk)...

The only true antidote for antagonistic feelings towards others seen as being unlike we are, is to realize this simple -- but largely unwelcome truth: just like ourselves, everyone -- everywhere in the world -- is doing the best they know how to do with the pain that they have been given.

To wish against the success of another is to wish against our own happiness, because it's impossible to "want" unhappiness for someone else without first bringing that sorrow into our own heart.

When it comes to your sense of being a captive in life, held helpless there by conditions beyond your control, you may take heart in this spiritual fact -- but only if you follow it all the way to your freedom: a deep illusion has no more reality to it than does a shallow one!...

Question: Your teachings say that making demands and having expectations just sets us up for trouble. I know it's true. I always plan how other people should act and how things should turn out, but they never do what I expect, and then I become angry and disappointed. I sense that I am causing all my own pain. If I could just learn to want for myself what life wants for me maybe I wouldn't...

Topic: Two Simple Steps to Walk Away From Fear, Anger and Any Sorrow (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 7/2/25)

Topics covered: You can't separate a psychological fear from a mistaken identity; A crisis is a moment when opposing forces meet a point of balance that then tips towards either healing or more sickness; Pain serves a divine purpose; To be lukewarm is to refuse to stay in the struggle; Life endlessly creates conditions under which revelation is delivered to you; Awe is the understanding that y...

The only thing that can happen to you when you're in the wrong place is a wrong thing. But even when you find yourself in a "wrong place" inwardly, you don't have to remain there.

Experience proves that whatever we seek to end usually lingers all the longer, which is why we must learn the Way to grant negative states their safe passage through us -- in spite of the temporary pain that always attends their appearance.

Topics Covered: Fear is poverty, and it doesn't matter what the fear is about; The depth of my fear is the depth of my poverty; The psychological pain we experience is not outside of us, but the deception is that it is; We have to die to who we have been in order to be reborn; Control is chaos; Unconscious duality is conflict; There is no reason for the moment outside of the...