When at last we see how our present sense of self is little more than a derivative of relationships with things outside of us, and realize that most of our pain is the negative byproduct of these unseen attachments, we start to want to have our own life.

In this life, due to the great and compassionate Intelligence that governs it, not one thing is wasted . . . and this includes, once we come to realize our own foolishness, even those moments of our lives we have unknowingly thrown away.

Topic: The Power to Free Yourself from Any Past Painful Regret (5/24/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Power to Free Yourself from Any Past Painful Regret (5/24/20 Classroom Talk)

Little I's make mistakes and feel miserable. Big I sees there's more to learn and is...

Topics Covered: What does a difficult moment have to do with giving my life away?; Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others; Do you think you're the only one who suffers?; Most men live lives of quiet desperation; Love is greater than the life it gives; Not my will but Thy will be done; Seeing the good in difficult moments; There is no such thing as discouragement without...

Topic: Relationship Magic! Questions: How can one get Divine forgiveness; Working to be present with someone when they're negative; Staying awake when interacting with other people; How do I deal with panic attacks; What is heaven like; How do you formulate the tone of your talks; Is anger a sign that something's amiss in the psyche; How often do you have major epiphanies.

Have you ever had appear in your mind the image of someone who hurt you, or run a whole mental movie about something that didn't work out, so that in recalling the event you actually relived the sense of loss? How does such a painful image seem to stay in the mind, especially given the fact of how much we struggle to make it go away? We all know how it feels to try and "fix" such visitations,...

No one wants to be touched by the hand of suffering, so millions spend billions trying to outrun its cold touch. And yet, these are the unwise for a very unseen reason: into every life must come some rain, for without it what else can a heart become other than a desert that never blooms?...

An inner place of safety exists. If we stand in that new position, no dark feelings can affect us. That position has always been there, waiting for us to find it. It is the place where the True Self resides. But we have mistakenly believed that only two options were open to us: to either stand and suffer, or run away and suffer, with our problems in constant pursuit. We always listened to the...

It is impossible to learn the truth of anything that we resist, which means that as long as we refuse our own suffering we have no chance of ever uncovering the truth of the secret Goodness from which it arises.

We have the capacity to stop making ourselves powerless by waking up to having put ourselves where our powers are stolen from us.